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“The world is older than you know and the universe? It’s far bigger than you could even imagine…”People were very open with their expressions, some more than others.It wasn’t a bad thing, really.It was normal, human even. It came part and parcel with being a social species who thrived on communication and cooperation and engagement. No matter what, it was instinct to want to express how they felt even if they really shouldn’t or didn’t consciously want to.Even media training could only help so much with what you said out of your mouth and not how the rest of your face spoke for you. Unless you were Aubrey Plaza and, in that case, you generally had the opposite problem.Trish Walker was no Aubrey Plaza and, sitting right across from her, Orin could tell that the woman was having her mind blown in several ways. Generally, from the moment he was dumb enough to joke that he was an alien — the fuck are you doing, they just got invaded — the former child-star turned daytime-host had been on the edge of her seat.In more ways than one.And if she freaked out, her audience would lose their goddamn minds with her— which would be very very bad for him. So, Orin knew that he was going to have to do his very best to land the hell out of this plane.

“And when I say far bigger, I mean…” Orin Kelly held his fist up as he focused, a bright green construct forming in front of him as he screwed his face up. Seconds of pure mental effort passed him by, the studio letting out a gasp as a representation of the Milky Way formed in front of his face. 

No smaller than his fist, it spun slow in a quiet dance of too many twinkling stars; the whole emerald representation looking more like glittering sand than anything else. That was no surprise, given that it was too many for him to recreate accurately with any fidelity. 

After all, there were hundreds of billions of stars inside their galaxy by itself, let alone their local group. “I mean, far far…”A green arrow circled out a small section of the Milky Way in front of him, a bold ‘We Are Here’ shining above it for a few seconds. “Bigger.”The entire studio held their breath again, another gasp sucking the air from the room as constructs filled the whole space around him and Trish. The stage went from blue and yellow to a bright and vibrant green, galaxies just like the one right in front of him formed all at once.

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