Liam looked at Alex for a moment, momentarily taken aback by the question. He genuinely hadn't expected it.
He smiled, then walked a few steps ahead of the group, his eyes lifting to the enormous banded giant hanging in the sky above them. Jupiter. Slow and vast and silent, filling half the heavens.
He noticed how quiet everyone had gone behind him. The friends who never stopped talking, who bickered and teased through everything, had fallen still, waiting for his answer. Absurd as the question was, they wanted to know too. Every one of them was watching his back, holding the same small breath.
And it wasn't just them. The whole world was holding it too.
Down on Earth, the roaring comment section that hadn't gone quiet in over an hour simply stopped, frozen mid-scroll, millions of people staring at their screens and waiting on a single answer.
