Dimming star
(short about the aftermath of the star iron retrieval between Legs and Zam)
Things had gone horribly sideways in those mines. Legs was still terribly exhausted when he woke up in that bed haphazardly pushed besides Zam's. He looked at the Stellar in the next bed over, noting just how pale and small their usually bright and strong extraterrestrial friend looked. Zam had said the crystal in their spacesuit had broken, that it was the power source that allowed her to be here with them. Legundo was a tinkerer maybe he could figure out how it worked, figure out a replacement. He tried to sit up only for a dizzy spell to force him back down. He let out a frustrated grunt, tears springing to his eyes. The Professor had somehow managed to bind Zam's life to the life-force of those that had been present in the infirmary, but that was only stabilising Zam enough to keep them alive in a coma of undefined length. He wanted to force himself up to help, to do something. Then he remembers Ros and Gracie who worked themself half to dead trying to help everyone else. He made them promise to take better care of themselves while promising them he wouldn't ad to their work load. So grudgingly he settle back down but rolled on his side to face his friend. Twilight Sparkle was curled up on Zam's stomach, giving of worried little trills. On the way out of the Academy Legundo had promised Zam he would tell her about his home village. And while Zam probably couldn't hear him, he still started talking. About the sprawling fields surrounding his hometown, the forests nearby and the mountains in the distance. He spoke of the workshop he spent so much time in and the experiments he conducted. But soon before long he ran out of stories to tell and so despite now knowing where the song came from he starts to sing. The song about resting dragons, times long past, about the sinking sun and approaching dusk, just like he had for Gracie a few days ago. But now he knew where the melody had come from, it was the same melody he heard in the dragon crypt, the melody he heard under the irons hum. And not for the first time Legundo wondered if the song was part of the iron soul. Or if the parents he did not remember sang it to him, if they were somehow connected to the last keeper.
