Between The Stars Novels & Stories

Cassie's POV Stellar Route was an old phone that included perusing the star groupings and star designs to foresee changes within the climate and the energies of the coasting islands. The professionals accepted that by understanding the firmament rhythms, they seem to guarantee the agreement of their domain. "These stars are like our firmament clock," one of the Stellar Pilots clarified, their eyes filtering the night sky. "We accept that by interpreting their developments, we are able to defend our world from disturbances."

He lay down with the pillow under his head. “I’ve seen the stars without a planet’s atmosphere. They don’t twinkle or sparkle at all like we see here, Kay. The atmosphere of the planet distorts the reality and gives the illusion that they sparkle.” Conor explained as I snuggled up to him. He pointed to a group of five reddish bright stars over the ocean. “Those are the oldest stars in this galaxy. They’re over several billion years old. And that over there,” He pointed to a bright colorful patch in the sky over the Forbidden Forest. “That colorful patch in the sky is a star nursery. That’s where stars are born. It’s called a nebula.”

Over the next couple of days, my ritual included spending the whole of the afternoon with Delight in the gardens learning about anything she was willing to talk about for the whole day. I didn’t mind sitting down and listening to her talk, she could do it for hours and she always had something to say. Stars are hugely celestial bodies made mostly of hydrogen and helium that produce light and heat from the churning nuclear forges inside their cores. They are the building block of the galaxies of which there are billions of them in the universe.

He simply sat there, sharing a story about distant stars as if that was enough. He didn't know about me and Justin. But at that time I felt like he was considering it. Knowing or not knowing. The night stretched above us, vast and endless. The stars shimmered quietly, unaware of the weight humans attached to them. I looked at the one he had pointed out earlier. Two stars. Close. Yet impossibly far. Maybe some love stories were like that. Burning brightly, even in separation. But as the cool breeze brushed against my face and the silence between us grew softer instead of heavier, I realized something small but important.

"Together." The stars wheeled overhead, cold and distant. But somewhere beyond them, something was listening.

Tiny diamonds formed a ring of stars, cradling a silver crescent in the center. My breathing stopped. I had sketched that design when I was fifteen, in the corner of my old sketchbook. The day Ryan confessed to me, he had pointed at that drawing, his voice shaking. “Jane, one day when I have money, I’ll make this for you. “Stars always stay beside the moon. “Just like I’ll never break my promise to you.” Now he had finally made it. He just put it on someone else. On screen, Wendy touched the pendant at her collarbone and smiled shyly.

The plane left the atmosphere of Lunaris, soaring across the vast canvas of purples, blues, and pinks space, clashing together and dotted with over a million tiny stars. Throughout the ride, Luna was engaged in a warm and friendly chat with Sasha as she got to know that the other girl's home realm was Ignis, the hottest planet in the Starry Galaxy.

She sat beside me and reached out to wipe my tears. “ Iris, there are two people in this world— the moon and stars.” I looked at her confused. “The moon's job is to shine and light up the sky at night, while the stars are there to assist.” She glanced towards Julia through the door that led to the room where the party was held. Julia threw her head to laugh at something another child said. That's the same with people, some are born to shine like the moon, while some others are meant to stare in the background and help them shine.” Her eyes returned to me.

Two of the stars seemed to be trying to outshine the other, one red and one blue but there was a yellow star in-between them, it wasn't visible due to their shine but it still glowed The last star was the green one which stood aside without troubling anyone. Suddenly the green star came to the blue star's aid and mixed up with it forming a green-blue light. Just when the two stars thought they had won against the red star, so many other red stars came along and swallowed up the yellow star which had remained unmoving between them. And then something strange began to happen. The red star seemed to be drawing in more and more of the stars and it managed to draw in all the stars including the r

Little Nomi looked at Monique curiously, her eyes were brighter than the stars in the sky. "Of course, Look, these stars have formed a constellation called the Ursa Minor, the one over there is Ursa Major..." Monique pointed at the stars in the sky and taught them to Little Nomi one by one.