Everything Is Connected

[Alia Discordia]

Savannah Alia Daeva is currently going through some things.

The type of things that she's only ever read about in literature, or seen in movies, or fantasized about in her quietest, loneliest moments.

The way Nivek is looking at her now, she's finally beginning to understand what those things really feel like.

It's absolutely nothing like she imagined it could be, and it shocks her to learn that the emotions of happiness and fear can coexist so well together in one moment.

"It's not the tech that I'm awed by, Alia."

In a day full of firsts for her, this one is by far her favorite. She's not smiling anymore, but she feels like she is. The surge of her elation translates through the ships systems as the lights in the Commons flare so brightly, that it brings all of them to the point of burnout, leaving just the orange glow of sunlight reflecting off of Eris through the panoramic window as the only illumination needed.

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Nivek Raylan Erieth is currently going through some things.

The girl he knew before isn't a girl anymore, and it shocks him to realize that in this one moment.

He began to flirt with her about six months ago, but back then, it was strictly nothing more than innocent banter between the two of them. It made her happy, and when she was happy, the worlds were a better place because of it.

Though, the way she's looking at him with those ice-green eyes, and the way they burn right through him, he's beginning to understand that fear and possibility can coexist.

Now that the lights have gone, and this woman stands before him bathed in the natural orange glow of Eris, all he can think is, in spite of all its flaws, the Universe is a perfect machine.

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