title: Night of the Milky Way Railway
author:  Kenji Miyazawa 
description: Text: English (translation)<br> Original Language: Japanese
zlib_text: **OVERRIDE**
  
   _The only way to break free of a controlling force is to first recognize
  exactly what that force is_
  
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  **GEORGE R. R. MARTIN**
  
  Dusk was settling softly over the High Lakes as Kabaraijian and his crew made
  their way home from the caves. It was a calm, quiet dusk; a twilight blended
  of green waters and mellow night winds and the slow fading of Grotto's gentle
  sun. From the rear of his launch, Kabaraijian watched it fall, and listened to
  the sounds of twilight over the purring of the engine.
  
  Grotto was a quiet world, but the sounds were there, if you knew how to
  listen. Kabaraijian knew.
  
  He sat erect in the back of the boat, a slight figure with swarthy skin and
  long black hair and brown eyes that drifted dreamy. One thin hand rested on
  his knee, the other, forgotten, on the motor. And his ears listened; to the
  bubbling of the water in the wake of the launch, and the swish-splash of the
  lakeleapers breaking surface, and the wind moving the trailing green branches