( open ) liberate your sons and daughters the bush is high but in the hole there's water

[synergismus]

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[egodefence]

Gaius Baltar is not actually an astronomer, it should be noted. Granted, his society makes a point of it becoming more general knowledge than cultures that are more grounded, and it should be said that working as a high level consultant for a fleet of spaceships with no landing in sight for the longest time does familiarise one with the basics. Still, it isn't really a scientific compulsion that sees the man stood here.

And he probably won't be the only one who might look at the skies with regard to his place in the world.

He's dressed down and comfortably for the occasion, having accepted a hot drink. Now and then, he looks around with the manner of someone waiting for someone else, but can otherwise be found drifting, or finding a place to sit, or talking with one of the volunteer speakers.

[al_saselea]

Gina does keep Gaius waiting, and it's intentional. There's something she likes about watching him watch for her that can be interpreted as endearing as much as it's also something of an asshole move.

She's done away with the lace and velvet of the clothes gifted to her by Severus Snape, but apparently enjoyed the dark colour scheme. The dark cargo pants are practical and a leftover sensibility from her previous life. The thin coat she wears over a beige tank keep the night's chill at bay. The cup of cocoa in her hands helps with that as well.

"I'd forgotten how much I like this," she offers rather ambiguously in greeting, stepping into Baltar's periphery finally.

[egodefence]

Having been stood up (and stood others up) enough times in the past for Gaius to consider it a true possibility, there's a little bit of relief when familiar voice turns his attention from where he'd been idly watching someone set up a gigantic set of telescopes through the glass wall of the dome. "Hello," he says, raising his half-finished cocoa in automatic greeting.

His idleness had actually been alone, as well, and there are no voices in his head to guide him. It's his own common sense, then, that has him greeting her that simply, friend-like, for all that other instincts automatically war against it.

"Were you one for star gazing?"

[al_saselea]

Her lips twitch as if to suggest that she may have considered smiling. "I was," she admits, tilting her head back so she can look at the sky. There's a touch of wonder in her expression as she takes it all in. "I used to think about the vastness of the universe. You'd think it would stop inspiring awe after all the time spent out in it, looking for something more."

Gina looks back to Gaius then, tone just a bit warmer, "You?"

[egodefence]

"I think you only get used to something when you run into the end of it," Gaius suggests, hands clasped around his mug of cocoa, although careful not to trigger any collapse. "Like, um. A book, or." A person, he's thinking of people, but that's the sort of insight he veers away from before it can stick. "This city, I suppose. Space sort of..."

He tips his head to follow her gaze upwards, at the strange magnification of the Baedal sky above them, the unfamiliar star configurations.

"...it sort of keeps going, doesn't it. I didn't, myself, really-- nothing outside've work or call of duty. I prefer things less immense."

[al_saselea]

There's a moment the Cylon takes to reflect, covering it with a sip from the cup in her hands. She tilts her head in a considering fashion. "I think I agree. The vastness is enjoyable in the abstract. Less so when it's this... daunting obstacle in your way."

In the way of peace. In the way of freedom. In the way of life.

"Looks like this place is just the opposite."