they probably didn't happen! America wasn't settled until there was steam or something! ALL SORTS OF CRAZY THINGS. The Age of Sail and Discovery were curtailed by having to go along land. there aren't any more stories of constellations. (Sam and Dean didn't spend hours watching the stars.)
"There's nothing but black up there," Aunt Sharon says gently, and Amelia shakes her head. It's like double vision, heady, lights printed onto the sky in the back of her mind.
"There wasn't always," she says. She is only seven. She doesn't know yet what the look on her aunt's face means.
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Re: a world without stars
Date: 2010-06-29 09:57 pm (UTC)they probably didn't happen! America wasn't settled until there was steam or something! ALL SORTS OF CRAZY THINGS. The Age of Sail and Discovery were curtailed by having to go along land. there aren't any more stories of constellations. (Sam and Dean didn't spend hours watching the stars.)
"There's nothing but black up there," Aunt Sharon says gently, and Amelia shakes her head. It's like double vision, heady, lights printed onto the sky in the back of her mind.
"There wasn't always," she says. She is only seven. She doesn't know yet what the look on her aunt's face means.