In the Star Kingdom.

[eight_or_eleven]

She stood in the middle of a vast star field, speckled with stars and galaxies and nebulae of all kinds. It was strange, really. Here in the depths of space there was nothing to stand on. Rather, she looked like she was standing on something very invisible to the eyes of all

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[bright_daughter]

The was the sense of laughter as Strength shifted looking under and around her at the nothing to stand on. Not mean or spiteful, but childlike and sweetly amused.

Forming out of almost nothing, but seeming to draw on light from the crown of her forehead and the stars which filled the sky around them Star appeared with a large grin.

"Most of the Tarot don't come into my realm very often."

[eight_or_eleven]

"You have made the Star Kingdom your home?" she asks, amused. "It makes sense. The castle can be a trying place when you want peace."

It does. To her anyways. Why shouldn't Star live with the inhabitants of the Star Kingdom?

At that moment Aquila and Cygnus fly in, though given that this was space, to say they flew in was somewhat debatable. Stars glitter in their feathers.

"At least you are not alone," she muses. "As to coming more often? Well, if I didn't have my Duty I would spend more time here than I do. I like it here."

[bright_daughter]

"The lit sky is a beautiful place for gathering martial for all purposes," Star said, briefly, with an ironic smile tucked into the corner of her lips.

"There is a whisper you are seeking?"

This is said with an expression quite like a very young child asking if someone is getting a new puppy or kitten. It's all blinding hope and awe.

[eight_or_eleven]

We are here to see Leo Minor, Shujaa answers for Strength. To see if there are cubs. She does not have them often. Once or twice in a millennium.

Many of those cubs became new stars, guiding countless people throughout the universe.

"A brief excursion," Strength adds. "There is one back in the bar who has sought our aide, but there is time yet for me to do whatever I choose to do."

As opposed to Duty.

[leominor]

At long last, after Star had departed, the figure of an enormous lioness came walking into view.

Padding. Upon some invisible tract only those of the Star Kingdom could see.

Welcome to the Star Kingdom, Leo Minor rumbles, her voice bouncing off of the stars. It's been a long time since you last walked this way.

[eight_or_eleven]

A smile as the lioness strides into view.

"Greetings oh Great Mother of the Stellar Savannah!" Strength says with the utmost respect. "How goes the hunting?"

[leominor]

Now that she's closer, it's abundantly clear that Leo Minor-despite her name-is huge. In fact she is the size of a large draught horse.

There is nothing "minor" about Leo Minor.

The hunting goes well, Strength of the Tarot, she rumbles. Her voice is now large and echoing. There is much game to be found in the Eagle Nebula.

She seats herself down upon a small spiral galaxy. Or appears to.

What brings you here today?

[eight_or_eleven]

"You are why I come here, Great Mother," Strength says, feeling that sense of awe she always feels when in the stellar lioness' presence.

"I come to tell you that my companion has chosen his name at last, and to see if you have had cubs, and to see how they fare."