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For your prompt thingy: O, the stars or space, and Georgia from Tale of Two Towns, if that's okay. Thanks in advance!

To be perfectly honest, I haven't played TToTT in a very long time, and when I played I didn't play much, so I got a little creative with my interpretation of Georgia's character. So let's have a little Georgia and some stargazing and some introspection.

I hope you enjoy! And thank you for the prompt!

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Georgia flicked off her flashlight as she reached the summit of the mountain. Her father wouldn’t like it if he knew she had climbed all the way up the mountain all by herself in the middle of the night, but he was sound asleep and unlikely to wake any time before his alarm went off in the morning. And if he did notice her absence there wasn’t anything he could do about it now. Georgia was already at the summit and this night was too perfect to miss on the off chance she might get scolded.

The night sky was crystal clear, no moon hung in the sky to obscure any faint starlight, and the night air was just cool enough to invigorate her without being chilly. An absolutely perfect night for stargazing.

Georgia flopped down on the grass, folding her arms beneath her head as she laid back to stare up into the jeweled night sky. She drew in a deep breath and released it slowly, tracing out the constellations she knew with her eyes. Admittedly, she didn’t know many, but there was the Big Dipper, and… there was Orion. Her eyes swept over the stars, feeling a slight twinge of irritation that she couldn’t remember what other constellations were out tonight – Laney knew these things better than she did.

Georgia sighed once again, giving herself a moment to wallow in her loneliness. She missed her friend. Laney had only been gone for a little over a month, but it might as well have been a lifetime for Georgia. Laney was off at university, majoring in business and hospitality management with a side order of culinary school to keep her really busy. Laney was off living her life, learning new things, meeting new people, building bridges to get away from this small town. Georgia was stuck in Bluebell.

She found the Milky Way and ran her eyes along its length. She had dreams too! She had plans for her future! But her goals might as well be as unreachable as the stars overhead. She lifted her hand up and motioned as if to pluck one of the stars from the sky before letting it fall heavily to her side.

On second thought, the stars were probably easier to get to.

Georgia wanted to be a veterinarian; it was all she had wanted ever since she was a little girl. But becoming a vet required a bachelor’s degree and then vet school – very expensive, very competitive, and very far away from home.

Georgia couldn’t leave her father alone like Laney could. Grady was… in a delicate place. He’d never quite recovered from his wife’s death a few years back. He always made up some excuse when Georgia brought up college plans. Not this year, dear, money’s too tight for application fees and tuition. I was thinking of expanding our livestock selection, but I’ll need an extra hand if I’m to manage all the animals by myself. Maybe next semester. Maybe next year.

Maybe never, if Grady could have his way.

It wasn’t that Georgia was exactly eager to leave her father and her home; going off alone to college in a big city was scary in its own right. And the thought of abandoning him made her feel sick, but if she ever wanted to follow her own dreams, she would have to get past that eventually. She wouldn’t even be able to have Laney as a friend for support, Georgia needed to attend a university with a strong science program if she had any hope of enticing herself to veterinary schools, and Laney’s business school wouldn’t cut it. And then there was a whole matter of if she could even get into vet school. She wasn’t so naïve as to think she could become a vet just by wanting it really badly. They were all extremely competitive programs, she would need top grades and an impressive resume and just be plain lucky to even be considered… Georgia wasn’t sure she could handle the rejection, if she worked so hard for her first degree to only be rejected on the threshold of her dream. Would the effort, time, and money even be worth it if it ended up wasted in the end?

Georgia’s hand curled into a fist, and she looked away from the night sky. Maybe Grady wasn’t the only thing keeping Georgia from attaining her goals. Maybe she was… no, she didn’t want to think about that. Not right now.

She’d come up to the summit to look at the stars and enjoy herself, not tear herself down with her own self-doubts. She sighed one last time, sharply to push away all of the doubt and pity.

This night sky was too beautiful to be shrouded by tears. She looked in earnest again for constellations, she had to remember more than Orion and the Big Dipper. She stared along enough and shaped began to emerge, a bunny, a chicken, a horse. She didn’t care if she was making them up. That’s what the original astronomers did anyways, connected the random dots until they made a picture.

Something caught Georgia’s eye, a small streak of motion and light across the velvety blackness. She tracked it until it disappeared – a meteorite burning up in atmosphere, a piece of random space junk. No – a smile curled her lips upward – it wasn’t a meteorite; it was a shooting star. A message from the heavens, the ferry of a wish.

Georgia sent off her wish and settled back into the chill grass, still smiling as she looked deeply into the night sky and the stars hanging above her.

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