It felt like forever since she left, since she said goodbye to her siblings. Not that many of them knew that was happening. No she arrived at the party and stayed even though she wished she had not, she had wanted to began her journey of self discovery, to find her true self, without being bogged down by her loved ones.
So far so good, She had shadowed herself away, with her brother. Arcus had been a good traveling companion, truly. Ironically enough, he kept her grounded, instead of floating up into the heavens where the stars called to her.
Which was one of the reasons she was here at this moment. The stars called more than ever now that she was out from under most of her siblings shadows. She hummed as she moved through the grasses, scenting both rabbits and and groundhogs. Equally delicious and equally hard to catch, but it was not the food that brought her to this grassy field, no it was the rumors of the view of the sky. She sat and waited for the clouds to part on the night sky to see her passion. She sighed, of course the clouds where going to be a problem, they hid her view from the biggest temptation of her life and kept her feet planted on the ground where she could not float away into them.
Astrea smiled at the thought, it seemed that Arcus was keeping her grounded even when he was not around... The star child was about to get to her paws to make her way back to her brother before she was missed when Zori came flying past her head. She zoomed after a bug and then made her way back to Astrea to settle between the wolf's ears.
"Good hunting," Astrea asked her companion, the other person that kept her from losing herself in the stars, something the bird took almost too seriously.
Zori chirped happily. "Yes! The field is bountiful with pray; Both for me and you! If you would get you head outta the sky!"
Astra smiled at the thought, She had become most distant ever since she left her family, reverting more into her nature. "If you say so my feathery friend." Not that she could help it, now that Voltage and Seerten was not with her she was more spaced out thinking about the world and her place on it, to only come to the conclusion that she may walk the world and thrive on it but her heart and soul was truly out in space with the stars. That realization left her a little cold, wishing that she knew herself better, that she was not so lost when she was with no one but herself.
And that was it, Astrea was lost, she thought she knew herself when surrounded by family, she was the quite thoughtful youngest sister. One of the few that was always there but not truly part of them, left out but still in the center of the action. A shadow in the brightness of her family even though she was cast in the light.
Everything that Astrea thought she knew about herself seemed to be lost when shes not with them... How can that be... She did not understand, and that was why she left her family, why she HAD to make this journey. That was why she was out here at this moment below the dark clouded night sky.
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