There is precisely one synagogue in Oldtown, with towering stained glass windows that the community claims to have been brought from Earth when the colony was first founded; Juno loves those windows, has always loved them, and stops to look at the clean colours every time he walks by. He hasn't been inside the building many times -- his mother was never very interested in joining the community except on High Holidays and that had ended pretty quickly when she started losing it, and he'd only been able to bear going to say kaddish for Benten once. But it's a bit of a comfort to know that if he ever decides to make it back to his roots in a way that takes a little bit more doing than lighting candles on Hanukkah, the doors will always be open, and inside he will find warm hands and clever minds and the spirit of welcome there to welcome him back as if he hasn't been gone more than half his life, and only halfway belonged in the first place.
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