Journey Through the Stars - II

Your ship continues on. The darkness has taken you, the void all around. The sun is but another star now, fainter by the day. The last you see of your own system are those two little marbles floating on the edge, Uranus and Neptune, which in their separate systems live their isolated and dark existences on the edge of an abyss. Beyond here is the Kuiper belt, more distant and wide-spanning than the one further in, with cold dark bodies, some large, some small, hanging over their distant center like an intricate mobile. Further on feeds it into the Oort cloud, the shell of silent comets, beyond which lies the limit of the heliosphere, the final departure from the sun's influence and into the influence of interstellar space.

Even out here on the edge of the void already, the sounds of the hewed giants, last stops of the solar system, hang ever in the air of your passing ship.

Now on the solar system's last stop, Neptune. After this, there will be no more giants of color and moons; just a dark void of silent comets and asteroids tumbling in the black vacuum.

From here on out, you are entering the interstellar zone. From here on out, you are entering the infinite.