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Zoey learns that when things are far away enough, there’s a point where it doesn’t matter so much exactly how far they are. Alpha Centauri is four and a quarter lightyears away from Earth; Burbank is nine thousand five hundred kilometres away from Seoul; Rumi’s house is five hundred metres away from Zoey’s old house.
Zoey’s new house might as well be on Alpha Centauri. Because either way, Zoey can’t walk to Rumi’s house anymore. Zoey can’t see her in school anymore. Zoey can’t see her—
“It’s the same hemisphere,” Rumi says, quietly. Her eyes don’t go with her smile. “So we’ll see the same stars.”
Or: Childhood friends zoerumi fall back into orbit.