oh no that just made it harder to not cry like a little baby

"Thanks."

Rachel will accept being hugged for as long as Jackie is willing to.

. . . pat patpat??  Okay that's probably enough hug.

"So your universe is wide enough to fit other planets?"

"It sure is!

...Wait, yours isn't? But, you have...stars..."

". . . yes, we have stars.  What does that have to do with other planets?"

"Planets...revolve around them?" Rachel.asks hopefully.

"...planets don't revolve around stars here, do they."

"No??  How would that even . . . work . . ."

"So, like, our stars are...really big balls of plasma? And then our planets are big balls of gas, liquid, and rock, in various ratios, that are attracted to the stars by the force of gravity and settle into orbits around them."

"And you're how sure of that?"

"I've...met extraterrestrials that regularly travel between planets and they all agree with our models of this?"