Seeing Stars

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(Just to let you guys know, Victoria is in this episode, but she'll appear in the finale of season one officially.)

"In the great expanse of the nether, there exists boundless amounts of magnificent phenomenon. The great brilliance of an exploding star, the nimble dance of space dust through a nebula. But once every one thousand years, our corner of reality is treated to an incredible sight. From the deep eldritch recesses of the cosmos, the tears of a forgotten colossus begin to fall. Tears made of the hopes and dreams of every living thing that never came to be. Condensed and sent shooting across the night sky in a dazzling final display. What appears to mortal beings as a meteor shower we can see for what it is: Azathoth's Tears." Stolas shows.

A young Octavia giggles, "Daddy, can we go see it someday?"

"Yes, dear. I promise, when the day comes nothing will be able to keep me from being there with you. Good night, my Owlette." Stolas tucks her in before leaving with his grimoire.

The young owl yawns, "Good night!" she turns, wiggling and giggling in her bed.

...

Octavia, still looking happy, gets out of bed and circles a drawing in a calendar. She hops down the hallway as she puts on her boot, "Hey, dad!" she looks in the kitchen and around the manor, but couldn't find him, "Dad? Dad?" she sees the foyer door open, hearing his voice coming from outside.

"Yes, I know!" Stolas exclaims as he was outside and on the phone with Stella, squeezing a servant in his other hand as imps we're loading items into a van, "It will be there, shortly. Of course they're being careful!"

"Dad, what's going on?" Octavia asks as she walks over.

"Apparently, your mother can't exist somewhere for two minutes without the entirety of her possessions-" Stolas is cut off as Stella could be heard yelling something incomprehensibly in response, "What? No! I'm not turning her against you-Yes, Stella!"

"-never have to see your fucking face again!"

"Dad?" Octavia asks as Stella continues yelling incomprehensibly, "This is going to be done before tonight, right?"

"What? Oh. I hardly think so. Knowing your mother, this will take all weekend." Stolas turns to the imps loading the car, "Don't be gentle about it, now! Break whatever you have to to get it all in there. And please be gentle with Elizabeth's things. They're fragile."

"What?! What did you just tell them to do?!"

"But, tonight was supposed to-"

"Darling, can we not talk about this now? Your mother's being a real B-I-T-C-H."

"The fuck do you mean-"

"Well, how was I supposed to know you can spell?! I've never seen you read!"

"I'm going to take everythingEverything you own!"

Out of frustration, Octavia runs to her room and slams the door, yelling as she rips up the calendar and angrily toppling her telescope over. She grabs a bag with her things and leaves the mansion.

...

Knives fly past in the I.M.P. office as Blitzø looks nervous.

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