I stared up at the sky, allowing myself to appreciate the seemingly endless canvas of stars. One thing that was painfully obvious to me, was that I had never seen the sky look quite like this before—not on the Continent, and I doubted that it would ever get the chance to look like this. Over there, there was just too much pollution, to much unnatural light during the night. It was something that I had always viewed as normal—especially since the Continent had been the only place that I had ever known.
I picked up on the sound of approaching footsteps, which had me closing my eyes as a reflex action. Had it been too much for me to hope that whoever it was wouldn’t see me, or that if they did, they would give me the courtesy of minding their business and walking past me? Of course it was t
