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The night was calm in the commonwealth. Quiet, but for the distant rumble of a far off Rad Storm. Even the Raiders and Super Mutants seemed to have taken the night off for once.
Alice ran a leathery hand over her scalp and looked up at the stars overhead. Her feet drifted through the irradiated water of the lake and she sighed. The stars, she thought, were so much brighter now than they had ever been before the bombs fell.
The lake stretched out before her, a still and quiet mirror of the sky above. Those heavenly bodies brought down to lap at her ankles and warm with the radiation of the water. It was when she could steal away moments like these that she was almost glad to have gone ghoul.
She slid her rags off of her shoulders and let them fall away as she slid further into the lake. The starry waters lapped higher and higher. Around her knees, her hips, her shoulders. And with a deep breath she slid her head under as well.
She felt almost sacred in that moment as the heavens clothed her. Beautiful.
Before long she surfaced again and let herself float in the quiet.
There were many things she missed from the old world, but the stars are one of the things worth hanging on for.