[It would matter to more people that you realize, Asriel!]

[She sets the bucket against her hip as she listens. She knows now that there are more worlds that his experience was probably not the same as hers, but still.]

I was born in an Octarian dome. They're these hollowed out half-circles deep under the earth. We weren't allowed to go outside, but we could the inside of the domes would be large screens that would project what it would look like up top.

[Her eyes raise to the heavens that Asriel was seeing.] Poor substitution.