052. Immortal.

"You see that star?"

Young Lacaille stared, awestruck, as her father lectured behind her.

"That's a hypernova. Eta Carinae. Whenever you start to worry, look out there and remember--that light you see is eight thousand years old."

The words hadn't meant much to her then, but she understood them now that she was older and wiser. ( Read more... )