Hello?

First impressions are important. Quite often it is the only impression. Humans know this, and some use it to their advantage.

Allinllachu?

Love at first sight is a first impression. It is, in fact, not love. It is a combination of sight, smell, and sound that makes a human’s brain demand they get as close as possible to this new human and spend as much time with them as they can manage. It can grow into love, but it’s simply an instant, extreme infatuation.

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Where are you?

There is also a “hate at first sight”. A reaction some humans have to other people that, for no reason they can explain, makes them want to never be in the same room as this other human again. They call it things like a “vibe” or “aura”, because to them there is no logical explanation. It’s just that looking at the new human triggers their fight or flight response.

Kaypi.

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The mirror stations had to be moved. That was all there was to it. They had to be out of reach of solar flares.

A group of people was assigned to watch the star. The light packet was, if science worked correctly, lost forever, but sometimes science did not work correctly.

Light packets were made of light, but they weren’t aimless. They had direction, purpose. A packet had never been lost before, so no one knew what it would do.

Stars are bright. The light they emit can blind any human. Any light aimed at one will pale and dissipate long before reaching it.

But like a candle on a sunny day, the light packet might still be detectable. Somehow.

Maybe.

Hopefully.