over the rainbow, glorious sights

Many things had become second nature in the months Corazon had spent acclimating to life on Mira; such as the way her body shot upwards when she jumped.

One thing she could never quite pin down, however, was how to read the chief's mood. Elma had been so good at keeping secrets that her thoughts never seemed to reach her eyes.

Though there was one expression in particular Corazon wanted to understand: a warm smile, nearly imperceptible at times, though Corazon had a knack for spotting it.

She smiled as she listened to the party breathe a collective sigh of relief after a rough battle.

She smiled as she watched Lin and Irina and Gwin banter over the dinner table over something that absolutely was not important.

She smiled as she quietly walked the streets at night, stopping to talk however briefly with anyone she met along the way.

On one such walk, Corazon mustered the courage to ask what she saw when she smiled like that, for it had seemed in those moments that she was here and yet simultaneously somewhere far, far, away.

Elma looked surprised for a moment, confessing that she herself hadn't realized when the smile had overtaken her. She then laughed to herself, saying

"There's just something about this planet."

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