"I know, right!? We're in space! In my trainship! So, optional things to do: fly around and check out some pretty clouds, see if there's anything else to see, maybe spend some time bouncing around the cargo hold if I turn off the gravity..."

She grins curiously at the other girls. "Any other ideas?"

The many lights of the city she used to live in was both a sign of life and a shroud that drowned out the night sky.

Stars and swirling nebulae, delicate and nude before her, no atmosphere between her and it.

She is unworthy of it. How many people wished for this? To be free, to see the stars, to go where they please? To bear witness to the firmament?

Her eyes burn up.

"Huh?" She says, voice slightly shaky. "Oh, uhm, let's look around."

Sable looks up at the hint of shakiness in Strawberry's voice, and her smile softens to something small and gentle. She reaches out a hand to each girl, a bit shyly in Strawberry's case.

"We can take some time to just admire the view first, though. There's no need to rush off immediately, what with this being all our first time in deep space."

She blinks at the hand offered from the girl she barely knows. Every concern she might've had in this exact scenario seems so small right now. And yet as her hand inches towards theirs, as her fingers curl around a soft hand, her heart hammers in her chest.

She doesn't trust herself to speak, turning slightly to gaze out the window.

Eva's just been staring starry-eyed at the view; when Sable extends a hand to her as well, she takes it too, a slight tremble in her own hand.

"For all the strange places we've been to together, I think this is the first time I've really been awed. I dreamed of going to space someday, back on Earth. Never thought I'd get the chance."

Sable's smile widens a bit, and she gives each hand a gentle squeeze as she gazes out the window with her girlfriend and hopefully a new friend.

"I'm glad we can see it together. Girlfriends, new friends, sharing in the wonder."

She squeezes back. "Yeah." Strawberry whispers.

The inconceivable vastness housing an emptiness rich in color, light and detail. In its observing it becomes something more, transcending mere light and matter to become a memory, a pattern of thought in a conscious being. Something that might catalyze a change within its observers. More of an effect on the universe than any of the image's constituent photons could achieve on their own.

Patterns of light transmogrified through the engines of change that are human beings into something greater.

Eva closes her eyes after a moment, commiting the image to memory, then looks back out at the starscape. 

"We are a way for the stars to know themselves."

The words are barely a murmur, but a small smile lingers on Eva's lips afterwards. 

"Strange to find something so alien and yet so familiar out here."

The Pirates relax into a blur, burning the moment into their hearts with a tender sigh: girlfriend on one side, new friend on the other, stardust all, gazing upon radiant stardust. Truly a beautiful experience to share.

"Nothing so beautiful as animate stardust, sharing wonder with each other."

They squeeze the hands they're holding again. "Hello, stardust," they whisper.

"Hello Stardust." She whispers.