Evening.
Today, it was Aske's turn to guard the ancient book outside while the other girls had returned to Fire Island.
Aske moved a long bench from the church and sat outside the chapel, leisurely gazing at the deep night sky.
The light pollution in Solomon City had always been severe, but this time, due to the rise of the Magic Tide followed by the outbreak of a mutant event, most of the city's lights had gone out, revealing the spectacular "Song of Iron and Fire" world's starry night sky.
Although the continent's topology and place names here were highly similar to those on Earth, this planet, named "Helel," was not Earth; therefore, the starry sky here was completely different from what one would observe on Earth.
There were no Big Dipper, no Southern Cross, no constellations that Aske recognized—though he probably wouldn't have recognized them on Earth either.
