The Starlight Heir

by Amalie Howard

When the last star dims and the dawn of an endless night looms, the Starkeeper will burn, for where it walks death follows.

“You are the final falling star. The supernova. The bitter, beautiful end.”

We can decide our own paths. The gods and the fates might have their own plans and their own prophecies, but sometimes love is a choice you make, and one you keep making every day.”

“People choose to believe in something. What’s important is that they have a choice. To believe, not to believe, to be arcanist, to be modern. It’s all the same thing. Good versus evil. Light versus dark. The truth versus the lie. We’re all searching for meaning, Suraya. How we get it isn’t the goal . . . it’s in the journey.”