The Academy's cafeteria was not a mere dining hall; it was a feat of suspended architecture. The entire wing of the main building projected into the dome's interior like a massive terrace of glass and steel. There were no opaque walls to break the view; instead, panels of absolute-transparency reinforced glass marked the perimeter, curving with an organic elegance until they merged with the zenith structure protecting the island.
Through that invisible border, the void outside unfolded like an ocean of infinite blackness, dotted by the glimmer of distant stars that looked like diamonds suspended in nothingness.
