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Michael Burnham was born looking at the stars, but it took a long time for her to realise that the stars were looking back.
She'd catch glimpses of something tall, metallic, and winged disappearing into a red-shifted blur; easily dismissed as childish fantasy until it happened again at her promotion to first officer aboard U.S.S. Shenzhou. But when she asked, Medical said there was nothing wrong with her, so it was simply a mystery left unsolved.
So now Michael looked out at the stars and wondered what might be watching her.
(She never imagined it was her mother.)