When he would return to earth he would probably go straight to his parents and stay at their place for at least a month. It had been ages since he'd stayed there that long. It was weird how after leaving home to go to college he would still return back for months at a time. Summer vacation and stuff.

Then as the years went by he came back for less and less time. Now he was up in space. Thinking about this. As he thought, I should get to sleep.

Spacecity

wasn't actually that strict. Even if you weren't overtly sick if you were too tired to start work on time you could just start late. There was always work to be done and they weren't in a rush to get it done. So he wasn't so stressed about falling asleep. He could stay up and just keep thinking if he wanted to.

Thoughts and visions about blue skies down there. Riding a bike on a dirt road. Stuff like that. What was he doing up here he wondered. Who had it been? when there was a big life decision he noticed there was always a person involved not just a What. So who had it been that got him to decide that this was a good idea.

Maybe Keith? He wanted to blame Keith. Although he had never known the guy until he came up here. And even up here... tonight was the first night they had said more than a few words to each other.