Astrea let the child relax, she was not of a mind to impose upon her, she would let her gaze at the stars to her hearts content, after all who was she to tell the child no? She fallowed fallowed the girls gaze up and traced the patterns that where her home... Yes, unlike her other siblings she found her home not upon this earth but up in the sky, oh so far away. Even today she felt the call and the pull to join them in the sky, to let her inner star out and take its rightful place next to all of them... Maybe next to Orion, or even become Sirius's companion star. She smiled at the thought but knew better then to entertain it further, she after all was needed here with her family, she needed to get herself together and stop failing them all. The Star Dreamer did not know if any of her siblings realized just how hard she took the loss of, not just one but both of Voltages young, was on the star spotted woman. No one seemed to even give a passing thought to Astrea and her own mental health, they all seemed to think that since she was the calm presence that she did not rage inside, that the hurt and worry was not tearing her to bits like it had with Voltage a few months ago. It seemed that her family saw her as a shadow, just like she saw herself.
Astrea shook her head and pried her face from the sky and back to the child just in time for her to speak. The child greeted her as a Aunt but not as Aunt Astrea... It was just like she feared, little Seraphiel didn't even know her, again Astrea wanted to bang her head on the rocks of her perch, she gone and done it again. But instead of either sighing or getting up to bang her head on something hard Astrea only smiled at the girl, "Hello little Seraphiel." And when the child turned asked the burning question about the stars Astrea really did smile, a bright smile that radiated her inner star, the child had no idea how much the Star Dreamer loved the stars, how every night they called to her, how she felt the pull no matter the time of day, how the gentle pull turn to a massive tug when the earths father star slept and the distant stars blinked into the sky. "Yes, little one, I am very much a star wolf, so I tend to stay up all night." She glanced beside her then, wondering what sort of cold like element the child got, what made her tic and what whispered her name? Why was she up in the middle of the night unlike her mountain of a father? Did something call to her in the night? "Can you not sleep, child?"
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