Two Worlds, One Heart
Title: Two Worlds, One Heart
Character: Leawyn Brock
Prompt: #32 - Star
Word Count: 364
Rating: PG-13
Summary: The past is hard to forget, sometimes.
Author's Notes: This is 100% original. Steal and die.
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There's a star she can always find, no matter where she is in the system. On some planets, like Lossia, it's fainter and can only be seen during a brief, five-minute interval when the brighter of the two local stars burns enough of the clouds away for it to peep through. On others, like Umber, it's buried in a belt of dappled light and to see it one only need focus on its general vicinity. In two places, however, she can see it clear as day, even when the sun is riding high in the sky and canceling out the star's light.
The first is in her childhood home on Ariah, where all she has to do is look up at a forty-five degree angle and find the brightest point in the sky. The two of them had found that star together and had named it their own; it was the place he had told her her parents had gone when they went away, and that they would join them there someday. It was where he was waiting for her now, and she knew he waved at her whenever she looked up.
The second place is when she stands on the spot where he had died in her arms on Lachai. When she looks straight up the star is there, and it seems so very close. She can hear his voice in this place, as he tells her how proud he is of her, of how proud her parents were of her. The remains of the fighter and his body had been scoured by the icy winds and the frozen tundra had made a quick start on reclaiming craft and fighter, but she could still sense him here, and each time she looks up, she fancies that he's trying to reach out and give her one last embrace.
Someday soon, she knows, she'll join the man she had loved as a father and reunite with the parents that had left her when she was far too young. It's only a matter of time before fate and chance catch up and she's whisked away for a reunion that has been so long in the making.
Character: Leawyn Brock
Prompt: #32 - Star
Word Count: 364
Rating: PG-13
Summary: The past is hard to forget, sometimes.
Author's Notes: This is 100% original. Steal and die.
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There's a star she can always find, no matter where she is in the system. On some planets, like Lossia, it's fainter and can only be seen during a brief, five-minute interval when the brighter of the two local stars burns enough of the clouds away for it to peep through. On others, like Umber, it's buried in a belt of dappled light and to see it one only need focus on its general vicinity. In two places, however, she can see it clear as day, even when the sun is riding high in the sky and canceling out the star's light.
The first is in her childhood home on Ariah, where all she has to do is look up at a forty-five degree angle and find the brightest point in the sky. The two of them had found that star together and had named it their own; it was the place he had told her her parents had gone when they went away, and that they would join them there someday. It was where he was waiting for her now, and she knew he waved at her whenever she looked up.
The second place is when she stands on the spot where he had died in her arms on Lachai. When she looks straight up the star is there, and it seems so very close. She can hear his voice in this place, as he tells her how proud he is of her, of how proud her parents were of her. The remains of the fighter and his body had been scoured by the icy winds and the frozen tundra had made a quick start on reclaiming craft and fighter, but she could still sense him here, and each time she looks up, she fancies that he's trying to reach out and give her one last embrace.
Someday soon, she knows, she'll join the man she had loved as a father and reunite with the parents that had left her when she was far too young. It's only a matter of time before fate and chance catch up and she's whisked away for a reunion that has been so long in the making.