"We've called it a lot of things over the years," Clark admits with a breath out. His father especially had called it things that weren't fit for mixed company.
"My capsule. My space ship. My rocket."
He walks over to the front end, the small globe of blue and pokes the side. It wobbles, like water suspended in a bubble.
"I was put in here when I was a baby. This brought me from the planet I came from to this one. We don't have... anything like this in this country. On this world, really. Like I said: it's the most advanced thing you're going to find. Mostly because it came from a civilization so far away from here, the light from--" he swallowed again, "the light from Rao, the star that serves as the planet's sun, takes roughly twenty seven years to reach this world."
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Date: 2014-12-23 02:56 am (UTC)"My capsule. My space ship. My rocket."
He walks over to the front end, the small globe of blue and pokes the side. It wobbles, like water suspended in a bubble.
"I was put in here when I was a baby. This brought me from the planet I came from to this one. We don't have... anything like this in this country. On this world, really. Like I said: it's the most advanced thing you're going to find. Mostly because it came from a civilization so far away from here, the light from--" he swallowed again, "the light from Rao, the star that serves as the planet's sun, takes roughly twenty seven years to reach this world."