The Sky That Night
The sky above you, the sky above me — years apart, and the night they finally lined up.
Scene I · The sky above you
This is how the stars aligned above you the morning you met mom — September 21, 1997.
Some details of that morning are lost to time — but the sky remembers.
Cephalon read-out · this chart
OrdisAbove the horizon: Moon · Saturn · Mercury · ORION · BIG DIPPER · CASSIOPEIA
Scene II · The sky above me
And this is the sky above me the day I arrived — five years, four months, and twenty-four days before you.
Cephalon read-out · this chart
OrdisAbove the horizon: Moon · Venus · Mars · Saturn · Mercury · BIG DIPPER · CASSIOPEIA · CYGNUS · SUMMER TRIANGLE
Scene III · The parallel moment
On the morning of 21 September 1997, while I sat in my first classroom, the sky above you was arranging itself for a boy I hadn't met yet.
Scene IV · The gap
Time gap
5 y · 4 mo · 24 d
between two first breaths
Distance
≈ 2,030 km
between where we each began
His solar orbits
29
+ 12% of the current lap
Her solar orbits
34
+ 52% of the current lap
Two skies, one gap of time — closing, orbit by orbit.
Scene V · The night it began
Two different skies, years apart — and then, on October 21, 2025, they finally lined up.
Cephalon read-out · this chart
OrdisAbove the horizon: Saturn · BIG DIPPER · CASSIOPEIA · CYGNUS · SUMMER TRIANGLE
Scene VI · Mission record
Side by side since 21 Oct 2025
9,071 Hours Together
Origin System · of those hours
276 IN WARFRAME
Real sky · above you right now
9,071 hours side by side — 276 of them in the Origin System, and only a few of those without you.
Even in a game about being alone in space, you found a way to not be.
Scene VII · Cephalon transmission
Incoming transmission · Ordis
● signal stableWhat Ordis would say
Welcome home, Operator. Ordis has cross-referenced the star charts — [static] — twice now. The sky above you on 21 September 1997, and the sky above her on 28 April 1992. Ordis must conclude the universe was… [joy] …showing off.
Open channel · ask Ordis anything
He was there for all of it, after all — hovering over the Orbiter, keeping all stars accounted for.
Scene VIII · The unfinished chapter