After chasing an odd shadow in the forest, Aster Lumina finds himself in space and it's overflowing with strange creatures and magic. Despite always yearning for an escape from his home life, it's not what he envisioned at all. It's not going much better for Clematis either. After all, she's just lost the only family who cares for her. In addition, her best friend has been placed in foster care, under unknown circumstances of her parents' death. Realizing the two events may be connected, a mistake in the middle of the night leads her to discover what really happened to her brother. Now wielding magic, they must uncover unsettling truths about this strange realm in space and its residents. People aren't always who they say they are, and that becomes glaringly clear when friendships old and new conflict. --- Without in any way limiting the author's exclusive rights under copyright, any use of this work to "train" generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text is expressly prohibited. The authors reserve all rights to license uses of this work for generative AI training and development of machine learning language models. ---

a motive on one of the kids(kokichi)

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