Красота!
The desert is beautiful at night, though the sand’s still making everything look a little fuzzy to both her montrals and her eyes; she’s not sure she’s ever seen so many stars before. Definitely not on Coruscant, where the sky’s lit up bright even when she’s supposed to be fast asleep - maybe on Ilum, when they had been walking back from the caves of ice, their new crystals warm in their hands. Maybe there had been as many stars there.
Ahsoka’s not counting on it, though, not with the way she can see the band of the galaxy stretched out across the sky. She’s never seen anything like that before.
“That’s the galaxy,” she breathes. “This is amazing.”
“Right, you wouldn’t have been in the outer rim much before,” Knight Skywalker says, and grins. “Even on dark coreworlds, you can’t really see the galaxy’s band very well, because the outer parts are spread out so thin - but here, we’re staring straight at the core.”
“Illum’s on the rim,” she points out, still staring up at the sky.
“Illum is… strange,” he says. “Strange spin, strange rotation. I’m not sure it even lies on the disc proper.”
Ahsoka blinks. She’d never thought of that - she’s seen star charts before, but Illum’s never listed. Everyone just knows it’s somewhere on the rim, near wild space. But… he’s right, nobody knows exactly where it is - it could very well lie outside the technical bounds of their galaxy.