To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Her imagination was getting the better of her.

sinewy

Monotony is boring, and besides, as the ancients loved to point out, expectations of what could be or what should be are the most common sources of our discontent. Expectations lead to disappointment, and disappointment leads to anger and resentment. And

They always used the passive voice when acknowledging a mistake.

What was, not word-castles and hypotheticals. And right then, what she needed to do was sleep.

The Coriolis effect never failed to mess with her sense of how gravity (or the appearance of gravity) should work.

This I learned, meatbag, this and nothing more: when air, food, and shelter are assured, only two things matter. Work and companionship. To be alone and without purpose is to be the living dead.”

faint as faded regret.

“Don’t you see, Prisoner?” said Jorrus. “We are the mind of the universe itself. We and the Jellies and all self-aware beings. We are the universe watching itself, watching and learning.” “And someday,” said Veera, “we, and by extension the universe, will learn to expand beyond this realm and save ourselves from otherwise inevitable extinction.”

preternaturally