"I think eating and watching the stars is a wonderful thing to do for a date," he replied, putting his hand over hers and running his thumb over her knuckles, to sooth her. "Just because I asked you out, doesn't mean that you don't get to say what you want to do. The important thing for me is that I get to spend time with you, after all." And though she had food in her mouth, he pecked her lower lip, just to make the point, and closed up the little boxes of chinese food once their bowls were full. "The stars here are so different," he murmured. "My dad says that the planets, moving through space, over thousands of years between now and near when we lived before we came here, we end up with different views of the sky."