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Roof, Monday Night

In some ways, it felt like just yesterday that Elena had gotten here. In others, it had been ages.

One thing she was sure of: she was never going to get tired of coming up to the roof and watching the stars at night. She pulled a cigarette out, lit it, and looked for falling stars.

She didn't know any of these constellations. Maybe she should make up her own.

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Ben pretty much lived up here at night, which was why he was surprised not to know the presence who had beaten him there.

"Hello?"

"Hi," Elena said, sitting up a little straighter. She fished around in her pockets for her cigarettes, then held out the pack. "Smoke?"

See? It counted as a greeting if you offered the other person some of your nicotine.

Ben shook his head. "I don't smoke," he said. "But thank you. I'm Ben."

"Elena," she said, giving him a flash of a smile. "I'm trying to cut back, but something about sitting here, watching the stars ... I end up lighting up again, anyway."

"Habit or addiction?" Ben asked curiously.

"I've never really thought about it," Elena admitted with a laugh. "Maybe it just feels like something I should have, when I'm out here thinking. Something to do with my hands. I guess that counts more as 'habit,' in that case."

Ben grinned. "I have a bit of a need to keep my hands busy, too," he admitted. "It's probably best that I never try smoking."

"I'm sure that I am addicted, by now," she said easily. "Don't start. Most people who smoke hate it and are trying to quit. I've never bothered trying, myself. I don't know what I'd do with my hands, if I did."

She gave him a curious glance. "What do you do, instead?"

"I build things," he said. "Machines, mostly."

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Layla was wandering around a bit. As you do. Mostly she was just wandering for something to do.

And so she found the roof with people to visit. Which really she knew about.

"Mmm. Clear night," Layla replied. "With just a hint of tobacco. Throw in some giant robots and radiation and it'd be just like home."

"This is nothing like my home," Elena said easily. "This sky ... it's amazing. It's so peaceful up here. Radiation, that might be more like home."

She held out the pack of cigarettes, in case the other girl wanted one.

"No thank you," Layla said grabbing a seat to enjoy the view. "I'm good with the secondary smoke. I'm really here to enjoy the view and good company."

"The view's amazing," Elena smiled. "I make no promises, on the company."

Fair warning, and all.

"What sort of radiation do you have, back home?"

"Oh the standard background nuclear kind," Layla replied. "Nothing some decent meds can't handle."

"There's a whole ruined city back home that's off-limits," Elena said. "Reactors went down, and the radiation levels are ridiculously high. I wonder if those meds would help us, with that."

"If I didn't know better I'd say you were from Jersey," Layla joked. "The meds are hard to get where I'm from. Usually involves raiding an army medcenter.."

"Forget it," Elena said with a wry smile. "It's okay. Not many people go there, and ... it wasn't causing the Stigma anyway."

Amazingly, the Stigma hadn't come back. Which made that a rare occasion where something went right on Gaia, and didn't subsequently crash and burn.

"Does Jersey have plates?"

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Spock had decided to visit the roof at some point when he wasn't a girl. Imagine his surprise to run into his roommate there.

No, really, you'll have to imagine it, because none of it made it anywhere near the surface. "Elena?"

"Spock," she said, greeting him with a smile. "Just think, you could have the room to yourself, right now, and instead, you're up here."

"Ah," Spock said. "I am perhaps behind in my meditation. But." He tilted his head back. "You can't see Vulcan from the room."

"You can see Vulcan from here?" Elena asked, perking up. "Where is it?"

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Spock found and pointed straight to Vulcan. "There. Do you see it? 40 Eridani A, I believe it is called in this time." Home, whatever you called it.

Elena squinted, leaning back and trying to follow his line of sight.

"I'm not from here," she apologized. "Our stars look ... nothing like this, really. Is it that ... big-ish one, near that little clump, or the one a few inches up and a little to the left?"

Or the far-too-likely option C, none of the above?

Spock shook his head. "No, look. To the right. Two degrees north, by those two faint ones. There."

Two degrees .... oh. Okay.

"That one," she said. "That's ... your home."

She watched it for a few seconds in silence.

"Wow. That's incredible. Does that .... help? Being able to see it?"

She wondered if she'd feel less homesick if Gaia was one of these twinkling stars. Or more.

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