“They didn’t let me see … anything,” Art said suddenly. Nate felt Alex stiffen next to him, but they both kept quiet. “While I was in the Mountain. Not like this. I begged them. I pleaded with them. I promised to show them what they wanted. All I wanted to do was go outside and look toward the sky. But they said no. They thought … I don’t know what they thought. That maybe if I saw the stars, I could use them to communicate or something ridiculous like that. They didn’t understand that all I wanted was to look up and see what I could see. How different it would be to be staring at the stars
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