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Beneath a sky that remembers every secret it has ever witnessed, a quiet kingdom learns how fragile light can be.
The Star Kingdom is a place of wonder and contradiction. Glass observatories rise like constellations frozen in time, wings are painted with vows of loyalty, and the air hums with ancient power older than the stars themselves. It is beautiful, ceremonial, and cruel in the way beautiful things often are. Here, destiny is not a promise.
At the heart of it all is Valentine, a boy who has always loved the stars without knowing why they seem to look back at him. Gentle, earnest, and endlessly curious, he carries a warmth that feels out of place in a world sharpening itself for war. His life has been small, ordinary, and painfully human, yet something about him refuses to stay contained.
By his side walks Orbiter, quiet as a shadow and twice as heavy with unspoken things. Where Valentine glows, Orbiter absorbs. Where one reaches outward, the other holds back. Their differences should have kept them apart, yet fate presses them together again and again, stitching something fragile and unnameable between them. Trust grows slowly, like frost forming on glass. What Orbiter knows and what he has been taught are not the same thing, and every step closer to Valentine pulls him further from the truths he was raised to believe.
Above them loom commanders, queens, and legends that refuse to stay buried. Power hums behind palace walls. Old wars breathe just beneath the present moment. The past is not done with this world, and it is watching the children closely.
This story is one of soft moments in hard places. Of loyalty that feels like love and love that feels like treason. It is about grief that settles quietly in the chest, about anger that burns without knowing its target, and about the terrifying realization that the stories you were told might have been lies.
Most of all, it is about light and shadow, not enemies but halves of something unfinished.