starlessness

Still, he remembered a skylight, and the dark starlessness of the night it framed, and falling softly through darkness onto the panes of skylight glass were thick, soft drops of white.

それでも彼は天窓と、それが縁取る星のない暗い夜を覚えており、天窓のガラス板の上には、暗闇を通って厚く柔らかな白い粒が静かに降り注いでいた