'23kpc' Chapters 20-21: Is No News Really GOOD News?

...or just different?

Per usual — it seems to have become a weekly ritual — I sweated over getting an AI image that looked even roughly like the mental image I had in mind. I’m finding that if the subject is inanimate, I’ll “get there” more quickly. But that doesn’t mean the AI parser will make sense of — let alone heed — all my carefully constructed dependent clauses, hyphe…