Here's where the story really begins. I mean, you know, where it gets exciting!! I'm pretty excited for this story, I really enjoy writing it! Feedback welcomed. Enjoy! xx
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"What. The. Hell. Were. You. Thinking." The star's voice spoke again, quivering with anger. But it wasn't a star that was speaking anymore.
Where the star had fallen now stood a girl. She was pretty, Nathaniel supposed in her own way. She was very short, probably only just over five feet, and she was very skinny. Not rich-girl slender, but small-child skinny, like she still needed to grow into her bones. Her eyes were dark blue, with tiny gold flecks, and at the moment they were narrowed in anger. Her skin was very pale, and her hair was chopped short around her ears and was white. Not white-blonde, but actual white. Like someone had died her hair using snow. She looked like she came from another world. Not the Other World, but a distant universe, perhaps.
Even though she was a tiny thing, so delicate and pixie-like, her expression gave the impression that she carried the wrath of God in that tiny body. She pulled herself off the ground, and dusted herself off. She began to walk over to Nathaniel with a murderous look in her eye. She looked a little unsteady, and tripped over a pebble that was sticking out of the grass. Nathaniel would have laughed if he weren't so scared of the girl.
"What kind of idiot are you? What were you thinking? Catching a star with your BARE HANDS. Any other fool would know not to tamper with that sort of magic; they all know it would be more humane to just let us die. But no, you come waltzing about, and you go and you touch a star with your bare hands- how much STUPIDER can you GET?" The girl was breathing hard, fury radiating out of her entire body.
"I'm sorry, I'm still confused as to what's going on," Nathaniel replied, being as polite as he could muster. "Are you the star I just caught? If so, how did you get like that? Human, I mean. This is all a very new branch of magic to me, I was studying earth magic when I left..." Nathaniel trailed off when he saw the look upon the girl's face.
"Oh good lord, what rock have you been living under?" she looked at him like he was some sort of disgusting, five-headed beast from the marshlands. "Do I have to spell it out for you?" she said, crossing her arms disdainfully.
"Actually, yes, that would be extremely helpful. I have no idea what is going on; all I know is that you are very angry with me for some unknown reason." Nathaniel gave the girl a questioning look before matching her stance, crossing his arms and jutting his chin out at her.
"Dear god. All right." The girl pinched the bridge of her nose and closed her eyes. "Well. I don't know how much you know on the subject of stars, so I'll start at the very beginning. Mind you, I'm going to give you a highly condensed version of what happens." she took a deep breath and began. "When a star falls, it means it's going to die. It's pretty much falling to its death. When it hits the ground, its heart stops beating. If it were to touch anything but the ground itself, it would turn into fire. Humans, however, are the exception. If a falling star were to touch human skin, it would turn into a human itself."
"Well, that's not too bad," Nathaniel interrupted. "There are far worse things than to be human."
"Well, you see, there's a bit of a catch," the girl said with a wry smile. "You know how the entire universe is controlled by Fate, at the edge of the world?"
"Yes, of course," Nathaniel replied impatiently.
At the very edge of the world, right where the sea meets the sky, there is a place between sleep and awake, a place where you can still remember dreaming. That's where Fate lived. Fate was but a shadow; no one had seen Fate in person, but it had drifted through many a dream. Fate had in its possession the lives of every human being in this world. (The Other World has its own universal laws concerning the lives of humans, which are unclear to many people here.)
