"I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend."

-Destruction, Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman: Brief Lives".

For  scyvvir, in memory of a good friend whom I never got to meet but am assured was wonderful in every way a cat can be.