Dreaming of Stars

Constellations

"So we find out that this man Corvus killed us in a dream then we find out it was real except we are still alive and we are just going to sit in this cage waiting for him to come back?" Aquila paced back and forth as she tried to figure out some kind of complex reason why I had chosen sitting and waiting.

"Yep." I answered as I calmly looked around while sitting in the same spot I had been in since the beginning of my journey in jail.

"One thing I must say, you have changed a lot!" Aquila frustratingly shouted as she turned around with her flowing long dark blonde hair turned around with her and stopped as she put her hands up to her face.

"I guess forgetting everything about yourself really does change a person." I said as I picked up two sticks and started playing with them like they were dolls while talking.

"What are you doing?" Aquila asked as she sat in front of me and watched me play with the sticks.

"Entertaining myself." I answered as I moved both the sticks around in some sort of game they were playing.

"Hello there miss Vela." Aquila said as she picked up here own stick and moved it over to mine.

"Yes miss Aquila." my stick said as I turned it around to face her.

"How close are you?" She asked as I looked up at Aquila as u noticed where she was going when we made eye contact.

"Close but not as close are you are to me!" I shouted for Mystics as I pushed Aquila's in a playful matter.

Soon we continued the past until we made it all the way to the part Aquila had been shot. I moved my stick to put the dirt under Aquila's motionless stick representing me putting the paper under her. After that my stick ran to the imaginary door until I moved Corvus in a shooting recoil motion and dropped my stick as I dropped under his possession.

"He shot you too?" Aquila asked as she moved her eyes from the part of the memory she had never lived to see.

"Yes." I answered as I looked at her worried eyes.

"He got the papers?" She asked as she looked back at the dirt under her body.

"Oh yes I did." a voice said as the jail cell door squeaked open.

"What do you want?" Aquila fiercely snapped as she tended up at the sight of the nightmarish man. Besides her sudden hostility though I stayed sitting and stayed calm as the man walked in knowing he wanted me to become protective, on the edge of fighting.

"I want Vela." he answered as he walked over to me and put out his hand as I stood and grabbed it. After that we both turned to face the door as Corvus led me out and closed the barely occupied prison as a shout cam from behind.

"How is this a plan?" But I kept following the mysterious murderer as he led me up the crumbling stone steps leading to the matching building on top of the land grown towards the sky.

"Now Vela I have learned that even in infantry you were a quit complex girl." we had finally made it to the top of the vertically challenged mountain as I noticed a railed in balcony looking out to the beach, sea and sky.

As we continued walking in silence since I hadn't commented on the statement I found that the old building obviously was Corvus's study room from all of his knick knacks all over the cluttered space. I quickly noticed my papers messily spread over the chipped table in the middle of the room obviously the center of attention. On all other parts of the room were pictures of consolations and books filled with Corvus's own scribes.

"Now, I have studied all your own drawings that you have kept in your own journal that miraculously look like unfinished consolations but of course none of the known pictures in space even slightly resemble your lines of flowers." he said as he walked to a pile of papers with my drawings that brought back the memory of my encounter with the special flowers in front of me I had seen.

"So what are you asking me?"

"Tonight when the flowers shine bright on the dark canvas that is night sky I wish if you to point out the consolations you see otherwise your friend you just found not imaginary may become no more than a memory." his dark voice stated as he watched me pick up some of my forgotten papers.

As I looked at the squiggles and notes of the flowers leading a path to something I still didn't even know I finally realized something. "I can't match up any flowers with these." I turned with one of the pictures in my hand as I showed two of the pictures I had made to Corvus.

"Why not?" He questioned clearly on the verge of spilling his frustration.

"Because, space is endless. These were all taken in different places in space with different positioning of flowers. It would be almost impossible to find these exact ones unless if I went back into space.
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I quickly gobbled up the delicious egg after way to much waiting. "How hard is it to get a decent egg out in the middle of the sea?" I screamed at the setting sun that left a sprawl of colors across the ocean and sky that would soon tear their icy blades out of their scabbards and attack the poor girl lost in the middle of the ocean.

"Ooh it's getting cold." I said as the sun soon disappeared and the killing cold waters lapped at the sides of the boat but staying in the same place since the anchor had miraculously caught something.

"Where is something warm when I need it!" I shouted into the sea as I crossed my arms on my dirt covered once white cotton shirt and crossed my legs across the matching skirt.

After a moment of complete of complete and utter cold I stood and picked up an. "I would rather die than die." I said as I started rowing the non seaworthy ship towards potential doom.