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“Look to the stars. Aim. Ignite.”
I’ll ignite the stars.
Maybe everything does die—but maybe, somehow, everything that dies someday comes back.
Tonight, for once, I actually have someone else who knows how I feel.
6:16 AM —I’m 6′1″ but I’d be able to see you. —Even in a crowd, I’d know. Elle 6:17 AM —Know what? 6:18 AM —That I’d want to dance with you.
It’s easier to be who you want to be when aren’t trying to be who everyone else thinks you are.
And if we’re both looking up at the same sky, how far apart can we REALLY be? What were the odds of us being put on the same slab of rock in this huge universe?
—Elle, we might not know much about each other, and I might not be there, and you might not be here, but I’m glad to share this sky with you. —Maybe we should start looking up together, ah’blena
Sage thinks I hate Princess Amara on the principle that she’s a lying double-crosser, but I hate her because I can relate to her. I’m the one tossed into the Black Nebula. I’m the one lost, in a life, a world, a universe that is no longer mine.
7:40 PM —Yeah, where everything we thought was impossible happens and then there’s a world where everything impossible doesn’t. Carmindor 7:40 PM —So which universe are we in? 7:40 PM —The first.
Carmindor 7:41 PM —Oh good, I was scared for a minute there, ah’blena. —I’m glad we’re in the impossible world. 7:42 PM —Why? Carmindor 7:42 PM —Because otherwise I never would’ve found you.
We might all be different—we may ship different things or be in different fandoms—but if I learned anything from twenty-three days in a too-blue uniform playing a character I thought I could never be, it’s that when we become those characters, pieces of ourselves light up like glow sticks in the night. They shine. We shine. Together. And even when some of us fall to different universes, those lights never go out.
That is why this universe is impossible: because all the good things are impossible to keep. The universe always takes them away.
