A Mutual Understanding
When Mina woke up, she wasn't expecting to be waking up right next to Roland in another fancy hotel. This time, the decor had straight lines instead of curves and was very rigid. No floral decors, only perfectly straight lines and black and white tiles.
She jolted when she saw him right next to her. But Roland didn't see it, as he was sitting on the side of the bed facing the windows outside. He seemed to be staring directly at the perpendicular lines that formed the window bars.
One horizontal line, one vertical line. A cross.
But Mina realized that he was also looking at the stars outside of it. It was dawn, so some of them should have remained.
It was the planet Venus that they could see from the window. The Morning Star, as people call it.