They remembered too strongly, the ones who could not open themselves up to the unfathomable realities of this world. They might not have known it in their minds, but their spirits recalled it—that though their bodies were tied to the earth, a part of them had come from the stars.
They felt this even more deeply each time the sun would set and darkness would envelop their havens of safety. Many creatures that sought their flesh hunted in the night. As they lay on the ground, huddled together, never once feeling certain that they would live to see another daybreak, they would look up to see a blanket of twinkling lights, and for brief snatches, their fears would give way to awe.
They could not have known those lights were billions of other suns around which other worlds revolved, yet if th
