[ WP ] Only the rich can afford to see the stars at night .

For the first time, I saw the stars. 
 
 When I was a kid, I was told that once, the world was a warmer and better place, with the sun shining brightly in the day and the moon and the stars adorn the pitch black sky in the night. 
 
 Well, until the End with capital E happened, when idiots in suits that pretended to understand humanity took humanity down with them, annihilating majority of our population with a weapon no one ever conceived before and no one will ever conceive after. After that, there are no more light other than dull illumination powered by huge geothermal power stations every five blocks. For us, the sky is brown bedrock a hundred feet above our head. 
 
 There were talks about an above ground shelter that could let us roam the surface of the Earth again, and once more see the stars that was once obscured by dust, but the impossible price means only those dirty rich slave masters could live on the surface estate. The rest of us could only live in underground cities and slums, dreaming of someday we could reach the surface. 
 
 But today, I could see the stars. It was n't as beautiful as I thought it is, but it was far more beautiful than the brown ceilings of the underground cities. 
 
 I could see the stars, as they burn, churning out energy from nuclear fusion. All the inhabitants of dark underground city around me stood motionless as we looked at the stars. 
 
 The stars that coming closer each minute, ticking down our doom. 
 
 Indeed, the stars are beautiful. Far, far more beautiful than the artless illumination in the dark confine of humanity's last refugee. 
 
 But even I know that the stars should n't be *this* close to Earth. 
 
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