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I was always quite distant to those around me, but as time went on it felt like I slowly began to fade away. I would still see others on occasion, but it was rare to exchange any more than simple formalities and small talk. I just assumed that they had little interest in me, or didn't want to feel like they had to act sympathetic towards me, but it turns out that they had a very good reason. There are things about the universe that we don't understand, and this is a case of one in particular, that I never really got a complete explanation for.
I finally met my match. I was very confused at first, as the ritual pointed me towards a place on the moon itself. I had a feeling that my match would be able to figure it out, but he made it much sooner than I expected. I was filled with too much shock to be happy. It was a nerve-racking thing for me. I would have to tell him about what I am. I would have to see the look on his face when he realises that he will no longer be able to go back to our planet, and that it's because of me. It was something that always scared me.
He was a nice guy, very accepting too. He looked like he was suspicious when we first met, but after explaining my condition his reaction was a sigh of relief. He seemed to expect something bad to happen, in which my condition was something very manageable that he was fine with. We talked for a long time. When he told me about his journey it began making sense to me why he would react this way. He had gone through a lot, which saddened me, but he seemed to truly love and accept me which filled me with more joy than I expected.
He told me about how he called himself Traveller. It was a cute, I liked the idea of it. We seemed to get along and understand one another. It was more than I ever expected. The idea of a soul mate or perfect match for you is something that always seemed too good to be true. From what I could tell, our kind were the only ones capable of finding these types of matches, or at least on a regular basis. He really felt like someone that I would always want to be with, that will always be there for me and who will always love me. I'd been so distant to others that the concept was too much for me at times. I sometimes just find myself crying with tears of joy, or holding him and never letting go. It was too good to be true.
The keilo around us looked at us strangely though. They seemed to have something on their mind, like a secret that they weren't telling us. Whenever we asked, they would just ignore us, and we had reason to believe that they were holding secret meetings about us, for whatever reason that might be. There was something going on.
My match told me something that worried me. Apparently, one of them went up to him in secret and asked a question: "If the moon were to be destroyed, would you rather die alongside your match or escape and get to live on." He said he didn't give an answer, and seemed to be telling the truth.
We tried to find out anything we could but no one would tell us anything. Well, that is, until the day finally came. We just happened to be out when we noticed everyone going towards the ships together. It looked like every single member of the town was there, like they were all leaving and abandoning our home up here. We pulled one over and he jerked suddenly in surprise, not expecting to see us. Eventually, he explained what was happening.
There was an anomaly taking place. They didn't really understand what was happening, but if they were correct the moon would completely disconnect from its orbit. They think it might even become unaffected by gravity in general, making it only a matter of time before it would crash into another planet or something, though that was just blind speculation. At the end of the day, they didn't know what was going on, they just knew that they had to go back to the planet. Keilo can't survive away from our planet, it's common knowledge.
We thanked him and let him board. I turned to my match and was about to speak when he stopped me with a sudden, "No." He said he'd stay with me, regardless of what that meant.
And so, we just watched as the ships left, one by one. In the distance we could see ships from all over the moon leaving, to go back to the planet of us keilo. We didn't say a word, just spending the rest of the day sitting together, holding hands, as we watched them all leave.
"I guess it's just the two of us."
As strange as it was, things weren't that bad. We had to do everything ourselves and had a lot of work, but it was nice and peaceful. One thing we often forget about this idea of a perfect match, is that we don't need anyone else. We could live happily with just them. They truly mean everything to us, and we would literally give up everything to be together. My match showed me this, in a decision I feared he would regret, but the more I thought of it, it was quite an easy thing. It wouldn't have taken me a moment to do the same thing for him.
He liked to be dramatic sometimes, about how life will surprise you just when you thought things were going well. I can't say that either of us expected anything like this to happen, and both thought we were finished with our complicated journeys and struggles to get here. This may have surprised us in a negative way, but I was happy with how things ended. It was nice. This wasn't enough to stop us from living our happy ending.
