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 Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 3:26 am
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 3:44 am
Andromeda's Nocturne stood beneath the night skies, tracing the constellations in the quiet of the night. Her father stood a short distance away. This was how they sometimes spent their evenings in quiet, tracing the constellations. Her father had told her stories about them all her life. The stories of the stars and how they came to be--so many different ways that it made her head spin.
The story of Vega and her love, how the stars were planets, how some of them were long gone and only burned bright now because of...well, because they were so far away that they had no idea they were gone yet.
Fiery stars that stayed in the heavens for what seemed forever, and then gone like that and thousands of years before you notice.
She felt the familiar ache in her spine, the longing to stretch wings that did not exist on her back. She wanted to pull them out, flex the feathers and take to the skies. She wanted to reach the stars, touch them or at least get as close to them as she could, but that was impossible.
She was grounded for life, nothing would give her wings, and she would exist solitary and alone on the ground forever.
Andromeda had only told her father of her longing, not to be in the water but to be in the skies. They'd had that talk again. But what use was there in talking of it?
The heavens were painted on her sides and yet she was doomed to stay on the ground. How was that fair?
"Daddy," she started and then paused.
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Nyx Queen of Darkness Crew
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 3:53 am
There was a bittersweet pain in having children. You loved them with everything you are, and sometimes you still feel like a failure. You want to give them everything their heart desires, you never want to see them hurt...and sometimes there's not a thing you can do about it.
When Andromeda's Nocturne had first whispered to him as a foal how she was devastated she couldn't fly, he held her as she sobbed. He told her soothing words, he cradled her. But he could not tell her that it was going to happen eventually. It wasn't. This was one thing he couldn't give her.
"You're so much like your mother," he cut in. He smiled, "Head strong." He paused looking up at the stars. "Do you remember what I told you about falling stars?"
He nosed the falling star on the side of her skin. "Falling stars are just lost souls trying to come home to earth. But you Nocturne, you're the opposite. You're a falling star trying to return to the heavens. But have you ever met a star?"
He didn't wait for her to answer.
"Because the stars never do decide to come home, because they'd have to leave everything behind. Or maybe they can't...I don't know. But my falling star, be happy with what you are. You're made to be exactly how you are."
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 3:59 am
Andromeda knew that these talks pained her father, that his one desire was to give them each everything they wanted and deserved. He loved her that much. She was selfish, wishing for the heavens but he always told her no. He always let her know that she was who she was meant to be.
But somehow, she still felt like maybe it was a mistake. But maybe it was best not to be given what you wanted. Maybe it was best that you didn't have a choice like that. Things didn't just happen without a reason or a purpose. Things were that were meant to be.
Maybe this was it, maybe she was meant to be on the ground.
"Daddy, have you ever thought that maybe I was a shooting star? A lost soul that fell from the heavens and found my way home, but that sometimes...I just miss the other place?"
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