The Honor of Beasts

Rosalia's Journal

October 1st, 1482 E.Y

Dear me,

Milo is so very funny!! He may be my new favorite person! He's really nice, kind and outgoing. I'm really glad we're friends! He taught us new games which are incredibly fun. But also make us return back to our rooms even later. The other day I had another close call and today another. 

He taught us how to whistle with grass! I know, it sounds strange but it works! You place a strand of thick grass between your two thumbs then close your palms together and blow. We taught him how to swim and dance, but if I'm being honest he kept stumbling quite a lot and Demetri the malicious kept laughing at him. However, we laughed at him until we couldn't breath when he looked like an over puffed, dying fish as he was trying to whistle with the grass. I'm pretty sure we both also looked like a puffy dying fishy when we finally finished laughing.

He taught us street games and how to street fight! I feel unstoppable now! The world better beware! And we taught him how to sword fight with some wooden swords we stole! He's such a great student! He tells us horrifying, heroic, even romantic stories which he hears from travelers around town and we tell him stories from history; as he is uneducated. He's a really curious boy and loves everything we teach him, as we love everything he teaches us.

We challenge each other to all kinds of different races, like jumping, skipping, crawling, climbing, swimming, staring, you name it!

It's always the best part of my day, going to Wonderhills. If only I could stay there forever. But unfortunately, most times what we yearn for is just...too far from our grasp. 

Yet...is it?

Until next time...

October 5th, 1482 E.Y

Dear me,

Yesterday was a sad day for Velidia, we lost a battle with Tegisouri. I heard they have fallen stars fighting with them! Fallen stars! I do not know how they were able to tame such beasts and monsters.  Oh wait...I don't think I've mentioned them before.

Fallen stars are these human-like magical beings that started emerging a century or less ago. Some Velidians call them Kiazmin. You can tell them apart from pure humans by their dark dark midnight eyes filled with bright stars. Just like a starry night sky. They're called fallen stars because they come from the sky -well not literally- they're powers do, however.

See, a 100 years ago the world was attacked from above. The sky fell! It rained asteroids, rocks, and boulders. Cities and villages were destroyed, lots died. But those that survived and were affected from the massive energy blast, changed...their eyes were the first thing to change -they gradually darkened. People were curious and confused as to why this was, they thought it was a mark of their survival, that they were heroes, left alive for a specific purpose. Little did they know that that purpose was to continue the destruction and death that the stars began.

Some people even started celebrating those abominations! Can you imagine celebrating such beasts?! They were fooled by those midnight eyes, for their own eyes were blinded to the harsh reality which is that those who changed were actually cursed by the stars...Ooooo, so ominous and poetic, right? Or maybe not.

And then their powers started showing themselves.

There are two kinds of fallen stars; those that possess light and those that possess darkness. They can control it and command it if they master their ability. And just because someone can hold the light of the sun in the palm of their hand doesn't mean they are good. They are all bad, all monstrosities, every single one of them. They also have the heat of the sun in their hands, they can burn you alive.

Oh, I've heard the stories. They make their victims drink sunlight then watch laughing maliciously as their victims burn from the inside, screaming and screaming. And those that hold darkness. Oooo, they can control the shadows, make you see monsters that aren't there. Make you die of horror. They can fill you up with darkness until all your light, all that makes you you is gone; devoured by the dark. I heard they can even make you go blind temporarily. And permanently.

At first they were a few, but over the years their numbers multiplied and grew. They dispersed through the land wrecking havoc, and causing hearts to quiver with terror where ever they went.

They are scary horrifying beings that should not be in this world, they should have died when the stars attacked. We have been warned about them and told all kinds of stories since we were little little children. Sometimes I lay in bed trembling, fearing they might come for me.

Oooff now my hand hurts from all that I've written. Why did I even write this? No one is going to read it but me.

Ughhhh I just wasted my precious timeeee. Because of you. Wait...maybe I can rip this out and hand it to Master Jonathan so he can finally see that I DO pay attention when he teaches. Well...sometimes my mind wanders to Wonderhills, but he doesn't need to know that.

Let's get back to the Golden War. We have lost yet another battle and the Tegisourians are creeping forward bit by bit. Stealing more gold mines as they go. But I heard my father saying (as I was innocently passing by the war room) that the fallen stars will be their downfall, they will turn on their masters and kill them. Massacre everyone in Tegisouri as they take their revenge. Hopefully, that's true. An enemy of your enemy is your friend, right? 

Wait, no no no. The fallen will never EVER be our friends or allies. Nooo wayyyy.

They are vicious monsters, after all, and monsters can never be tamed. Monsters can never be allowed to live.

Until next time...