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“Don’t look at Earth,” Stone whispered. “Promise me.”

“It’s real enough,” Les replied, and then his voice melted into a hymn. kaleidoscope ray bradbury

But Hollister looked.

Silence. Then a soft click as Stone’s oxygen failed. “Don’t look at Earth,” Stone whispered

Silence. Then a crackle. A voice so faint it might have been starlight corroding. Silence

“No,” said Stone, and his voice was warm now, like a library lamp. “A kaleidoscope turn. The pattern breaks, but the colors don’t vanish. They just rearrange. You’ll be in someone’s eye, someone’s prayer. You’ll be the reason they look up.”

Stone. The navigator. The man who had once charted Earth’s constellations from a planetarium dome, drunk on wonder. Now he was a smudge of glass and bone inside his own helmet, his visor webbed with fractures. Through the cracks, his face looked like a broken mosaic.