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Short Story(?) #2: Moon Big.

You can prolly have guessed, at least a few of you, from the title but yeah, it's Hermitcraft! Again...! It follows Xerean and her discovery about the moon, and someone's discovery of her! What will happen? Read to find out! I'm also pretty sure this is an AU bcs like, some of the canon isn't exactly the same, but it's partially due to the fact I cannot remember the exact details of everything that happened and when, just certain events. The first few of these will probably end up just being Xerean interacting with people and a few bits of her story I have in place, but once I get into this, I'll start to branch out a bit. Again, any suggestions are welcome(so long as they're things I know about XD)!

Anyway I hope you enjoy and have fun!

(Good lord that was kinda cringey but I'm keeping it in anyway–)

Xerean loves to fly. 

From the first time she opened her wings, she's adored it. 

And she loves nighttime, especially the moonlight that comes with it. So why not go for a midnight stroll? Should be safe enough, someone asked the night to stay for some reason, so it's a good opportunity for her. She also hasn't gone to visit Scar for a while, perhaps she should do that, too. But first, flying. Very important. Appearing outside of the cave, she develops and flares her wings, jumping up into the sky and pumping her wings to gain altitude. She banks, heading for the Boatem area, one of her favourite places to go. She also likes Doc's 'Cursed Chunk' as she calls it, but he called it the Octo-chunk, although she only heard him say it once so she isn't entirely sure. She'll stick with Cursed Chunk. Next, she's gliding over Ren and Doc's shop: the Octagon. She loves the color scheme for it, diving down to brush the horns of the top goat in the Goatem Pole before rising back over Boatem. Boatem is strangely silent tonight, only Grian is awake, as far as she can tell, flying around below her, talking about something odd he'd been noticing, involving the ground flying up, before rushing off somewhere in the distance. His build is coming along nicely, he's made good progress on his shops for the Diagon Alley, and she can't help but admire his ability to create such captivating things from references and how he gets his inspiration. Scar's begun to make the mountain for him as well, blending the more bubbly rock at the cave's entry point into his own pointy peaks and smoother terrain. She wishes she could say she helped, but most of the time, she was more focused on watching Scar work. The moon lights up the place pretty well, in addition to all the torches, shroomlight, and other light sources placed, so she flies higher to admire it from a better view. In the hazy distance, she can see parts of Impulse's factory, Pearl's boat, even the spider shop thing Ren had built. Directly below her is the Boatem Hole and Boatem Pole, now only a deep, dark pit into the void with a little dot floating in the center. There's Grian's house, with the tantalizing end crystal bobbing at the top, Treesa and Mumbo's van, Mumbo's giant armchair-looking thing, and Scar's boat-wagon things. Xerean flips over to stare up at the moon, then frowns. Is it...bigger? She pulls up a memory of the moon from the last time she remembers staring at it. 

The size difference is very apparent. 

Her frown deepens, and she flies even higher, up through a cloud, before she lands on it, forcing it to act like a solid surface so she can observe the lunar object in better detail. Why is it so big? How had she not noticed? Sure, she'd been holed up with EX and Hels for a little over a week, but not even EX seemed to notice a difference. That, or he neglected to inform her(in which case, rude!). If the moon's bigger now, what if it's getting even BIGGER? Or is it a fault in the Code? By  TV what would have caused such a thing to happen? She mulls over this for a while, all intents to go visit Scar forgotten. In fact, Xerean is so deep in thought that she doesn't sense the arrival of another. "Excuse me!" She jumps, startled, and accidentally shoots a blast of...something or other. A blast of energy, basically. Luckily the person dodged, but it was very close. Noting to herself it may be worth working on that with Hels, she looks up to see who spoke, but a momentary panic sets in.