He looked out the window.

earth

was in view. He felt small again. Like that moment he realized how high the chewing mouth was above. Keith had tried to get the giraffe to recognize what he had just recognized. That the giraffe was so tall. But the animal gave no indication. It stared down at Keith for a few seconds and then continued chewing while looking out into the distance.

Keith looked up how long a

giraffe

lived. 25 years. So that giraffe could still be alive. Would the giraffe still be at that same

zoo

? Did zoos pass around animals like art

museum

s traded pieces? Keith never thought about this. He figured animals stayed at their zoos until they died. But how sad was that now he thought? Was it ethical for a giraffe to be born at the

Westcity

zoo, never leave that one and a half mile radius, until it died?

There had been 

space

babies. But there had yet to have been a space baby who lived their entire life up in space. One day such a life would happen. At first Keith thought humanity would have to wait decades for one of these space babies to die. But then he realized that one of them would probably die young. Statistics. A random disease or an accident. Although accidents didn't happen much up here. The firm kept things safe. Regulated. Predictable.