They were sitting and softly crying. No real reason other than being overtired and homesick, first time traveling so far, even for work. Then a skitty crawled in their lap and began to purr, and they began to feel a little better. -- BKF
First-time Spacers are fine until they're suddenly not. It's all fun and games until the homesickness hits like an apophis-class asteroid. As Trainee Engineer Nauf just found out while staring at the stars.
Ze had just found the sun for hir own homeworld.
It was a tiny speck in the velvet darkness of space. Nigh indestinguishable from a mote of dust on the viewing pane. In circumstances like that, it was only natural to be viscerally aware of how far away 'home' was.
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