Summary:
Rumi knows that she doesn't have a soulmate, she realized that pretty quickly when she never Found any Lost items as a kid. She's come to terms with it and can even ignore the envious longing she feels when Mira and Zoey Find each other's things regularly.
So it shocks her most of all when she Finds something after they all settle back into the new normal.
"What shall we do with our free afternoon, hm?" Tihuu Lisar smiled down at a few of his charges, the three younglings scrunching their faces up in concentration before one by one proposing activities.
"Push-pull!"
"I want to try tumbles again!"
"We did that this morning! Let's go out!"
He nodded along to each of them, but didn't voice any opinion other than a gentle reminder that they needed to stay inside the temple as they only had a short while before their next meal.
As a creche master Tihuu found joy in the little things like this, especially as the young ones discussed their options in a - well, not-so-calm manner as there was a bit of jumping and shouting involved when they got excited - but watching them not descend into arguing was always rewarding. Besides their energy made him feel decades younger.
"Have we decided?" he asked when they all turned to him once more.
"We want to make stars!" Little Xo exclaimed, throwing their hands up and grinning wide enough to show off their sharp teeth.
"Yeah! I already Lost all of mine, I need to make more!" Dociss chimed in, nodding seriously.
"Already, hm? Was it on purpose?" Even with creshlings this young Tihuu and his fellow masters tried to educate their charges on how to only Lose things to their Constellations, their soulmates as the wider galaxy called them, when they wanted to.
(Not that anyone could truly be a master of it, even he Lost a few things here and there over the past few years, but to quickly return the items they Found was just one reason they practiced with the little folded flimsiplast stars.)
"Yes," came Dociss' quick response. Of course, the hand xe placed over Jide's mouth said otherwise. Tihuu gave xir a knowing look, but left it at that when xe recoiled and wiped xir hand on their pants as Jide enacted their own justice via licking xir palm.
"Let me get the supplies while you let your fellows know we're making more Wishing Stars in case they want to join us." The three rushed away and Tihuu moved towards the craft cabinet to retrieve the flimsi strips.
"We make Wishing Stars?" a soft voice squeaked.
Turning, Tihuu spotted one of their newest additions staring up at him with wide eyes. Paper in hand, Tihuu coiled himself more loosely, bringing him closer to the little Twi'lek.
It was no surprise Mattja knew of the practice. Many cultures around the galaxy had similar traditions where those who Found the stars the Jedi Order Lost would write wishes on the flimsi before folding them back up and Losing them again in hopes they would come true.
"Of course, how do you think we found you, hm?" They couldn't grant every wish, but they tried to help where they could. Smiling at her wondering look, he shifted the materials to one hand and held out the other to Mattja. "Would you like to learn how to make a Wishing Star today?"
The smile he received in response was blinding.
"Yes!"
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Thanks to those who voted in the ficlet prompt poll!
This is part of a larger series with a couple branches, some featuring canonical Jedi and the others around original characters. It'll probably show up in the prompts again because I love the Lost Things Soulmate AU in all fandoms so much!
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Title: Lost and Gone Are Two Different Things
Author: Nenagh24(EverFascinated)
Warnings: Major Character Death
Word Count: 5165
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Relationships: Claudia Stilinski & Stiles Stilinski, Peter Hale & Stiles Stilinski
Tags: One Shot, Pre-Relationship, like WAY pre-relationship, Soulmates, possibly platonic possibly romantic, who can tell it's like a decade away from any true relationship, because Stiles is way too young to make that decision, and Peter respects that (possibly more than Stiles does), Lost Things AU, Canonical Character Death, of Claudia, No beta we die like Claudia
Summary: Stiles’ soulmate loses a lot of strange and concerning things, but that’s fine. Stiles will keep everything safe until he gets a chance to get all of it back to them.
