Beneath the Unseen Sky

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…The house settled into a quiet hum, the clock ticking on the mantelpiece a steady, relentless beat. Mary stood by the window, gazing out at the night sky. The stars were beginning to prick through the inky blackness, distant, indifferent witnesses to human drama. She was back, but she was also irrevocably changed. The ordinary life she had known was gone, replaced by a new, uncertain reality. The unseen sky above was vast and full of unknown constellations, and she, Mary Miller, was just beginning to navigate its bewildering expanse. The journey home had ended, but the journey within had just begun.