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[eight_or_eleven]

Decidedly more human than last time, Strength sits at the bar, with several paper lions she's made and placed about her on her table.

Someone definitely loves her lions.

Every now and then, a colourful piece of paper is wadded up and tossed to the floor for Shujaa or Utani to bat around with their paws. Don't worry; she'll clean it up later.

And speaking of lions, every now and then she inspects the bracelet she received yesterday, a gift from her lover, Justice.

When she does, she sighs happily.

And wonders if this is how humans feel when they're about to be bonded to the one they love for the rest of their lives.

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[bright_daughter]

It would be a lie to say she was as bright as The Sun. For she was not The Sun. Nor would she ever be. (Though, she liked to tease him, that he was just one very big star, and not even the largest of them.)


But it would not have been incorrect to say she shimmered, brightening unrestrained when her eyes fell on Strength, brilliant golden from her skin as she stopped in front of the table of Lions, unrestrainedly smiling.

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And he would point out that to the humans of Earth, he was the star that mattered most. Earth just would not be if there was no sun.

"Sister. Please, come join me!" Strength said, happy to see one of her family here. "There is much for me to share."

[bright_daughter]

One tiny blue jewel among millions.
But they loved Him all the same.



Star danced even standing in the air. Her skirts swishing in her excitement. Liberal joy and pleasure in the world and the knowledge. "There is so much."

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"And I shall start with the most important," she says, again examining the torque bracelet on her wrist.

"He asked me. I had wondered if he would..."

[bright_daughter]

Star nodding, fingers threading into her long white skirts.

"Ever more and more. Onward, and upward. Like Moon."

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"Yes. I do not know whether the others intend to do the same, but I am going 'onward and upward'."

Pause.

"I wonder if Justice will want a ceremony for this, or if the token was enough. He didn't have time to say."

[bright_daughter]

Star grinned, her skin shimmering brighter in that second.
"Into the path and onward into the light, you'll go."



Then, "Do you?"

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"I have not thought of that." Pause. "Perhaps I am just too happy to think about whether I do or don't."

[bright_daughter]

"There will be time enough for everything."

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"I do want the others there for this, though. If not for a ceremony then for a celebratory feast."

[bright_daughter]

"Skill could cook all her new dishes she keeps finding."

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"And decorate the castle as well." Pause. "She may become insufferable and insist that Justice and I have a ceremony just so she can pull out all the stops."

[bright_daughter]

Star settled for sitting on the air, though it was very much like it moved for her. Moved to catch her, hold her, like all heavens shift for her.

"The Castle has not been covered in ribbon in fa very long time."

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Well, isn't that how space works? Or something?

"All the more reason to have the place tied up with a bow."

[bright_daughter]

Star clapped excited and there was a laughter quite like bells, high and sweet, the kind of light that no darkness could stand through.