When they got home, Rena went to bed. They thought she was just tired from taking in that many colored ball of energy, but it was something else. Rena went to bed more often after that. She spent less time outside, and less time awake. Rena stopped playing pranks, and making Aiden seem like an idiot all the time. She was becoming less after she became more.
Two months after Rena absorbed Ataria, Lune came to visit. Before she went upstairs to Rena’s room, she listened to the story Tanya and Aiden wove. They were very worried for the girl, and they had hoped Lune would have a solution. Or a cure. Or as Aiden put it, “Make her stop acting like a zombie, dammit!” Lune promised nothing, though, not one to physically help. When she finally greeted Rena, many different voices answered her.
“Lune! Artemis! Diana! Selene! Mama!” Rena stopped at that one, startled. The wolf looked unsurprised as she climbed onto the bed with the last living Star.
“Hello, girls. All together again, are we?” Lune rested her head on the girl’s lap, calm.
“Lune, are you the moon?” Rena continued at the nod. “Why are you here?”
“I’m here to watch over you. I’m not like you though, I cannot interfere with this world because I did not sacrifice myself to enter it. I still guard over this world from the heavens.”
“Guard it from what?”
“You have forgotten. And I cannot tell someone that does not know. What do you plan to do now?”
“What do you mean, Mama? We still have a job to do.” Rena’s eyes turned white, briefly.
“Are you still going to do that? I thought you had given up?” It was like she lifted her eyebrow at that, but it was hard to tell on an animal.
“Some of us have,” Rena admitted. “But we still have a couple of years, right? We could do it!”
“Silly children, there’s a reason we gave Rena fifteen hundred years. But it’s not like you can come back, so do what you like. Do you still plan to die?”
“Yes.” The green eyes were firm in their answer.
“Then I’ll take my leave. I really have been gone far too long.” With that, the moon walked out of the room. Tanya and Aiden did not see her leave, and they never learned the truth of her identity.
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Contract with a Star (On Hold, Possibly Forever)
FantasyWhen giant chunks of rock fall out of the sky, we call them stars and wish on them. But what if they’re not always rock? What if some of them are sources of energy? What if that energy was what created and sustained life this entire time? Rena is on...
