Solborn...

Falling Feathers

Escatcy flowed through his veins like fine wine. Astrid tore his bandaging away. The scars and burns healed beneath them glowing before disappearing completely. Astrid laughed and headed up towards the roof. hallway. Meanwhile, The Solar System was very, very very confused. "OK, OK... What happened?" "Astrodude got off Venus, FLEW STRAIGHT INTO SUN, AND IS SOMEHOW STILL ALIVE-" Earth said, panicky. Mars sighed. "Sun do you remember anything?" "I remember something hitting my surface and then it got shot out!" Sun shrugged. Earth looked at Moon, "Hey, it should be nighttime where Astrodude is right? Maybe you can go check on him." "Ok..." Moon replied. Astrid meanwhile had gotten out of the hospital and onto the roof. He stood on the beam in the middle of the top. He took off the patching on his face, guided by the mirror from earlier, after taking it all off, he opened his left eye. He yelped. Instead of the usual grayish-blue color of his right "normal" eye, his left one was gold. "What the heck?" Astrid said to himself. As he looked upon the reflection, a rumbling noise echoed behind him, a mysterious voice called him, a mysterious voice he knew for one place only. Astrid groaned and turned around "Hey Astrodude!" The Moon smiled "Oh hey- HI." Astrid said nervously "Me and the rest of the planets have been worried lately because you know, You surviving Venus, you getting crashing in the sun," "No no no I'm fine-" Astrid covered his left, now yellow eye while walking away. "-Wait are you GLOWING?" Shoot, Astrid thought "Look, look, I'd love to have a little chit-chat butttt; I gotta get back to my room now, nice talking to you though, maybe try being a little less surprising going forwards, who know maybe we can meet again some- TIMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" Astrid was cut off he fell off the roof. Moon blinked, was Astrodude dead? But, from experience, nothing can kill him that effortlessly, he floated back onto the roof's level, face tight with shock "ah-, anyways, you have a good day or night or whatever you guys have up there... ha...bye..." Astrid awkwardly floated back down.

Moon turned to Mars and Venus, dying to know about the earthling, well, MARS was dying to know about Astrodude, Venus on the other hand, couldn't care less about Astrodude or, anything that had happened recently, but nevertheless. "Soo, Update on Astrodude?" Mars asked. Moon looked at them wide-eyed, "You are not gonna believe this..."

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They didn't.

"WHAT?!?! WHAT DO MEAN ASTRODUDE GLOWS NOW?!?!" Venus screeched"IT MEANS THAT, SOMEHOW, HE GLOWS NOW!" The Moon shouted "Whoa, everyone, everyone chillax," Earth said, trying to calm down the heated argument "Moon, did Astrodude do anything else that was...weird?" Moon nodded "One of his eyes was yellow and his hair was long, really long. Comet-tail long" Moon emphasized. Earth took a deep breath"Well... if we wanna get to the bottom of this, we're gonna have to do a bit more..." he held a 5-second pause "investigating."

Meanwhile, Astrid had gone back into the hospital and re-bandaged his hands and face, by that time, The sun had begun to rise, causing his illuminating light to fade away. His legs grew heavy again, and so he headed back into his hospital room He plopped directly onto the mattress, crawled back into the covers, and took a well-deserved rest. By the time he woke up, the nurse had come in with breakfast. "Good morning Sir-" The nurse gasped, dropping the breakfast tray in the process "Oh my..." Astrid was stretching by the window, he looked at the nurse and gave her a small smile "Good morning ma'am." He yawned, his left eye reflecting off the morning sunlight