The Starcatcher and the King
Look out your window tonight, and you’ll see the moon.
If you’re lucky, you’ll see the stars.
The sky wasn’t always like that, shining like a sheet of ice in the midnight sun. Once, long ago, it was dark. The moon was our only guide, and people walked into the darkness, never to be seen again. It was a cold age, full of fear and loss.
Many a person tried to change this, lighting fires that–in the end–turned to destruction instead of guidance, or harnessing arcane whisperings to lift the veil that covered the night sky, but even the strongest of mages couldn’t hold off this endless tide forever. Darkness always swept back over the sky.
And this darkness not only filled the world, but people’s hearts. The night was another word for violence and fear, with guarded chests and darting eyes that harvested the black for any sign of attack.
None were more guarded than those who had already lost someone to the darkness, and of these, there was one–his name lost to the ages–who longed for a lighter heart than the night would afford him. From his isolated cabin at the edge of the world, he watched the sea and the sky blend into one, his back to the forest that had taken his heart. Sunlight brought a reprieve from the night’s thoughts, but always, the sun dipped back beyond the horizon, leaving only its pale reflection in the shape of the moon.
Every night, the man looked up at the moon, begging its light to spread to the eternal expanse of the sky.
It was years into his nightly vigil when something changed. The moon shone brighter, seemed closer, and the darkness in the man’s heart was filled with this halo of light. The light spread through every part of the man, and he stood from his place at the meeting of the sea and the sky, and stepped towards the forest, intent on bringing the light into the core of darkness that he had lost so many to before. If he could only bring light to the darkest corners of the world, then no one would ever be as lonely as he had been.
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