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It’d been close to a week since he’d last seen Polaris, and the trip to Saturn all had his head spinning. Azzo was holed up in his room working on trying to figure out what everything meant, why he remembered what the letter had said the one Niflhel had written to Polaris. Then finding Polaris’ picture on Saturn… he sighed. Azzo had signed up for a forest ranger job out near camp Larkspur which he fully intended on doing a good job at. Zia had agreed to help him once he managed to talk to her about; convincing her working as a volunteer would look good on college scholarships.

Being away from Polaris though would be hard, he had to figure out what was going on there and well, she’d probably not be happy if was alone in the woods. His pencil tapped his desk as he thought, his ipod was on his belt playing different songs and he had it on random, for some reason though it seemed to keep playing love songs. It wasn’t long before he found himself walking around his room, pacing, and then falling into his sheets at home closing his eyes. He sighed they weren’t the velvet he’d fallen into on Saturn, but it was still home. Dreams danced in his head as he lay there falling asleep to the song, Here without you.

Polaris invaded his dreams here too...

He was sitting on a rooftop looking out over Destiny, Honey brown eyes held confusion as he stared across the city. Polaris was standing beside of the Knight in training, watching him curiously. Eventually giving a sigh Niflhel looked over to her offering a small smile. “There’s things I need to say...” He said softly looking at her, “And I don’t know how to tell you...” He turned around to face her fully.

Polaris was watching him, “I was the one to write the letter, I was the one you saw in the vision.” He sighed softly, shifting nervously from one foot to the other, “I was the knight you’re kissing, we... I think we were in love.” He said softly watching her, “I... don’t know what happened then... but...”

There was another pause he was trying not to let the awkwardness bother him, he didn’t want this to be awkward but he didn’t know what else to say, what else to do. “I... think I love you.” He said softly watching her as she stood there, unsure of what she thought. Hoping he wouldn’t break his heart the way it’d already been broken once before. His honey brown eyes gazed into teal eyes; the fear in them was almost tangible. “I just, I’ve been avoiding it since I messed up... I felt like I couldn’t take another round of messing up...”

Niflhel stood there watching her until suddenly there was a falling sensation, it was like Polaris had just pushed him over the edge. He was falling, just falling until suddenly. His eyes shot open and Azzo sat up looking around the room in a panic sweat clinging to his body like he’d just run a marathon. There was a small sigh of relief he was at home, it was just a dream. Merlin was sitting at the edge of the bed though having been watching Azzo as he slept. There was a soft whine from the German Sheppard before joining Azzo on his bed to lick at his face. “It’s okay Merlin.” He said with a chuckle rubbing the dog, just before having the large white mutt flop over on him. He was laughing before shaking his head and sighing almost sadly, “I gotta tell her Mer... I just don’t know how...”