The pinpricks became brighter. Zoe saw that it was a night sky, full of stars. At first it was a familiar sight, though she wondered how she could see a starry sky in her glass tube.

But then she looked more closely—or was something pulling her vision more strongly?

The pinpricks of light were not stars. Each point of light was an amorphous cluster of smaller lights.

She had the sensation of zooming in, like on a camera, on one particular cluster of lights.