Broken Boulder Through The Tulips!

"It's not just your worries," Lily reasoned, giving Korei a friendly nudge. "I don't know what to make of things either, and I'm sure others feel the same way. Lainie, Xahi, Lana. . . Everything's all sort of muddled." She shrugged, looking back up toward the stars. "Maybe they haven't talked to you yet because they're lost for words themselves."

She pointed her nose toward a sweeping arc, with a bright star at the very end. So bright, it caught her eye almost immediately. "That's your Little Dipper, yeah?" she asked, giving Korei a sidelong glance. "Why's it called that? It looks like a tadpole to me." Bulging head, long tail. . .

"Do you just study the stars for what they are, or do you. . .like, worship them? Or use them to tell fortunes? My Mum did that, sometimes," Lily admitted, a feeling of bittersweet warmth growing in the pit of her stomach as she thought of her mother, whom she missed all the time.