Welcome to Gaia! ::

Each of the constellations had been shown to him by now, several times for some of them, a different fact accompanying them each time. Mimsy never grew impatient at repeating herself, and never doubted that he knew it despite asking for her help, nor did she feel as if he purposely asked multiple times for the sake of humoring her. She was happy to remind him, happy to share more and more over time. It was nice to think that she could eventually give him all of the information that she had about the cosmos - such a task would take a very long time.

"Yes. I remember." And unlike that night, she turned her eyes away from the stars again to look towards him instead. "I remember how I knew that you needed to go, but I asked you to wait through dusk to watch the stars. I wanted you to stay with me. I could not admit that I did not know why, so you admitted it on my behalf. It was kind of you to do."

She kissed him with the same chaste restraint that she had shown that night, albeit absent of the loss and confusion the action once held.

"Stay with me," she requested, focused on nothing but him, hope and determination and hints of affection in her eyes when the stars twinkled just right. "Stay because I know that I need you this time."