Chapitre 128: CXXVIII. Neptune.

Did just some seconds, minutes, or even hours pass? Cookie could not tell any difference. Besides being unnecessary to tell that the place and drug that she had consumed made her perceive everything differently compared to what she would see in real life, it was as if her mind and senses had stopped belonging to herself in order to submerge her conscience in the evanescent artwork of the Uranian landscapes and hails of Auroras and shiny ice. 

"And so, this is Uranus," Her wise companion said. "Some say it is a boring planet compared to the other ones here in your solar system, but that doesn't have the minimal piece of truth on it."