Chapter 12: Space.

Chapter 12: Space.

Murry stood in front of Kel’s window utterly speechless and in awe. Far and wide and glittering with stars was half the wall. Kel was correct. No sunny windowsill but certainly a window. Murry would’ve dropped the glass plate, but Kel’s left tentacle caught the tablet. He was overwhelmed with the sheer beauty of the vision.

“Are you alright? Murry-cat?”

Murry stared. He’d never seen anything more magnificent or more frightening. Deep space was vast and intimidating. Unexpectedly, Murry felt so insignificant standing before the cosmos. His problems were tiny, and he was this little thing of nothing. Galaxies, universes, they were all more than the world. This expanse was more than Earth. He was seeing what only a few astronauts had ever seen.