At First Sight

[<] [>]  by C. Scott Davis [@]

11 September 2008

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Drabble Challenge #19

Prompt: brightness/brightly gleaming

"I can't see."

"Give yourself some time to adjust."

My new eyes are working, but my brain can't seem to make any sense of the data. I can feel and hear, but without vision, the rest doesn't matter. All of the billions spent and my terrible sacrifice will have been for nothing.

Then I notice points of light, and I suddenly realise what I'm seeing.

"Stars!"

As the voices cheer, the images resolve themselves and I become aware of sizes, distances and spatial relationships.

We're going to the stars! And, as pilot and ship, I'm going to take us there.

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