April 27

“Daughter of Fornication”

Galileo birthed astronomy and opened
the skies like a wanted book.

He opened
Marina, who birthed his three
illegitimate daughters. His legacy for them, infinite
unmarriageability. They were later convented,
never to leave the nunnery,
their heavens closed forever because the sky high
cost of dowries are expensive
for an explorer only looking up,
not looking out.

[Marina was rumoured to be happy with this arrangement but then later married someone else. The daughters couldn't marry because of their mother's situation, and Galileo couldn't afford the dowries, so the only option was the convent. They could never leave the walls of the nunnery. Completely unsurprisingly, it appears the church had no opinion on this matter, as they did on his other more astronomy related actions.]