[open] i think i'm where the bloodline ends

[liesma]

i still chase you into heartache
Every time you take a step

He seems tired, she thinks, or lost. Or perhaps both. Hear it in how hoarse his voice when he speaks. See it in how heavy his head when he looks to her. She smiles when he asks after her brother. It had not occurred to her that they might know each other, that creatures with stars of this nature might find one another and make friends. “His name is Phosphorus,” she tells him and her fondness is evident in her tone. How deeply she loves each of her siblings, though she finds herself most tremendously jealous of this particular brother and her sister Zohariel.

“The stars love Phosphorus,” she says, her voice far-away with her envy, “the planets, too.” Both Phosphorus and his twin brother Hesperus acted as the sun to several planets, each of them the center of their own small solar system.

Still, her smile remains and softens into something wistful when he speaks next. She turns her gaze then to the sky overhead, studying the stars that wink down at them. She, too, has spent her life amongst the stars, though she cannot help but suspect that he means something altogether different. To pull the stars down around him would probably not give him a feeling of being home, she suspects, thinks it would probably only make him homesick.

“What’s brought you down to earth, then?” she asks, tilting her fine head. She thinks that if she had the power to exist in the sky, she’d never leave it.

liesma —