"...and this, is the sky."
he pointed to a flat uranian nothing, although his face was clearly printed with "This uranian flat thing is everything to us. We crane our brainbox propellers every time we can, just to glance at it."
It didn't mean much to me, this sky thing. Maybe it's how the cells in their eyes are made; to fall feeling for it, to crane up on their tiptoes just to check if it's stayed. Even the medium sized ones, the big ones, their tiny ones, generations after generations still make sure to look at it, as if it will grow five insect legs and leave after lunchtime.
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