Doctor Who Drabble: Humbling Sight

[bk_forever]

Title: Humbling Sight
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Donna Noble, Tenth Doctor.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 311: Edge at dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Seeing the Milky Way from the outside is humbling.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.




The view from the edge of the Milky Way was stunning, countless stars scattered across the vacuum of space, the spiral shape familiar from the pictures in her grandfather’s astronomy books. It looked like a Catherine Wheel on bonfire night, but frozen in place, a snapshot capturing the briefest moment in time. Donna couldn’t tear her gaze away.


“It’s magnificent,” she sighed.


“And it’s only one galaxy among many. The universe is so much bigger than you humans can imagine; trillions of galaxies, and more worlds than you would believe.”


It put things in perspective; Donna had never felt smaller



The End

Comments

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I don't blame her. We are small.*stating a fact*

[bk_forever]

Just tiny little specks of dust on a slightly larger speck of dust floating in a vast universe.

Thank you.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I really feel teeny tiny! :D

[bk_forever]

Maybe that's no bad thing. the universe is so big it's hard to get one's head around it. Perhaps we should all remember how small we are in comparison.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Yes, it keeps us humble and puts life into perspective.

[bk_forever]

Exactly!