I woke up in the morning without the assistance of an alarm, but since I was confined to my barracks I had no particular reason to force myself to rise early. I closed my eyes again and rested my head back down on my pillow but sleep refused to return despite my body still feeling sluggish and heavy. Giving up on sleep but still unwilling to drag myself out of bed, I opened my eyes and stared longingly at the ceiling. When I was a child I used to gaze at my ceiling and pretend that I was looking up at the night sky. Did stars really twinkle? Was it true that the stars people saw didn't even exist by the time they could be seen because of how long it took their light to travel the distanc...

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