Day 8: Free Day - Stargazing
Notes: And this is it for another year's Rare Pair Week unless I decide to still do some of the other prompts (which I might)! Thank you for another amazing week of creativity and fun with our beloved YGO characters!
Radley was an intellectual soul. It wasn't unusual for Kalin to find him on their porch at night, looking up into the sky at the planets and stars. Sometimes he brought out his telescope for a better look.
"Yusei loves the stars too," Kalin remarked one evening as he joined Radley on the porch.
"They are really fascinating, aren't they?" Radley mused. He straightened. "It's so surreal, though, knowing these lights are millions of years old. It's literally looking into the past."
"I wonder if that's the only form of time-travel that's real in this time period aside from the portals no one can figure out," Kalin grunted.
Radley blinked in surprise. "It's an interesting way to think of it," he said. "I wonder if some loco people would think time-travel could somehow be harnessed by using that idea."
"I wouldn't be surprised," Kalin said. "I used to long for it to be real so I could fix my past mistakes. Now, I wouldn't even want to use it. I'd be too afraid of ruining what we have right now."
Radley smiled in agreement. "Our lives are perfect now, even though it took a lot to get us to this point." He stepped back from the telescope. "You wanna take a look-see?"
". . . That is a redundant expression," Kalin remarked as he agreeably came over to peer through the telescope lens.
"Yeah, I don't get it either," Radley smirked.
"There's a lot of constellations out tonight," Kalin noted as he looked into the night sky.
"I still don't get how ancient peoples could see some of the pictures they did in them," Radley chuckled. "Most of them barely resemble what they're 'supposed' to."
"I never got it either," Kalin said. "Maybe that was part of why astronomy bored me."
"The stars themselves are fascinating, though," Radley mused. "It'll be eerie when some of those lights finally go out and change the constellations forever."
"We might not be alive for that," Kalin said.
"You never know," Radley said with a wink. "My family is long-lived, remember? And yours seems to be too."
Kalin finally smirked a bit. "True."
"I hope we'll be sharing the stars for a long, long time," Radley added as he turned to gaze out at the sky again too.
"Yeah," Kalin murmured. "I do too."
He really felt they would be, but he still prayed for that to be the truth.
It was all they both wanted.
