Two of its planets actually might be habitable—probably not, but maybe. It’s my favorite star.”
I didn’t know what I was supposed to be seeing—it was just a circle like any other. But then he explained.
“I like to look at it and think about how the sun’s light looks to someone in Tau Ceti’s solar system.
Right now, they’re seeing our light from twelve years ago—in the light they’re seeing, my mom has three years to live.
This house has just been built, and Mom and Dad are always fighting about the layout of the kitchen.
In the light they see, you and I are just kids. We’ve got the best and the worst of it in front of us.”
“We still have the best and the worst of it in front of us,” I said. “I hope not,” he said. “I sure as hell hope the worst is behind me.”
I pulled away from Tau Ceti’s twelve-year-old light and looked up at Davis.
I took his hand, and part of me wanted to tell him I loved him, but I wasn’t sure if I really did.
Our hearts were broken in the same places. That’s something like love, but maybe not quite the thing itself.
It sucked having a dead person in your family, and I knew what he meant, about seeking solace in the old light.
Three years from now, I knew, he’d find a different favorite star, one with older light to gaze upon.
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