The canopy had parted just enough in this specific spot to offer a completely unobstructed view of the horizon. And what he saw made him stop chewing entirely.
It was, without a shadow of a doubt, the most breathtaking, mind-shattering scene he had ever laid eyes on in either of his lives.
Back on Earth, the night sky was a muted, polluted thing… a dark canvas dotted with a few struggling pinpricks of light and a single, lonely, cratered moon.
This world was not Earth. He knew that. He knew he was standing in the absolute, primordial center of a vast, uncountable multiverse, and the sky above proudly, terrifyingly displayed that cosmic reality.
