Spent my first night in the ship.
09 Aug 2016Harry The Hatchet
When I typed 'night' I meant it relatively...The bed that comes with the Asp Scout is not all that bad. Built for short range expeditions, the quarters are a bit cramped but otherwise perfectly livable. With a few adjustments I'll make it home.
I spent the night in orbit around an ice-rock in Dirone. I couldnt sleep, not for the most part. I thought for some time about the home I left behind. The mundanity of that existence leaves a drab taste in my mouth but the times I spent with my wife and family- they have a more sweeter edge. I'm not going to lie, I miss it all to a degree and these thoughts kept me up most of the night. I watched the pale brown light of the neaby dwarf star dapple and glisten on the dirty ice of the planet below me.
The planet stared back, unmoved by me or my presence. It was marked, here and there, with dents where meteorites struck it. Like mini catastrophes, each struck with a force enough to create a scar miles upon miles wide. The craters, over many years, would slowly soften into beautiful bowls. In time, more time than I could imagine, would they fill and heal completely? Would yet more epic impacts change their shapes and how the planet recalls them? I wondered how old this ugly little moon was. Just how unimaginably old it must of been and how many scars it had earned and shook off long before I got here. I could of sifted through the scans for this data exactly, but I couldn't be bothered. I got to thinking about home.
I made it to bed , slowly. I fell asleep, again slowly.