Steel Sky

He'd always known it was up there, in theory. There were the solarium levels, for one, but the deeper implications hereof; that the sunlight came from somewhere, much less the nature of that somewhere did not bear contemplating.

Knowing, however, changed all of that.

Lije had seen the sun, not through the safe, dull refraction of upper-level quartz, but naked, without protection. And beyond that still, across endless and terrifying nothingness... was Daneel.

Across the breakfast table (such unimaginable luxury), Jessie looked at him askew. "Something on your mind?"

Lips twitching, Lije shrugged. "Sorry. Got my head in the clouds."