005 Dark Towers Destroyed; Video; Action;

[oceantrauma]

[Ken's situated in the library, books strewn out around him, but currently they're pushed to the side, his attention on the device, expression thoughtful.]

Rapunzel-san mentioned stars the other day. I decided to tell some stories from my home world about them, along with the names I recall, and look through the library for other stories and names.

However, it made me realize some of us may be from the same world, but you would still know stories and legends of the stars I don't. And there are other people from other worlds that would have completely different stars, and different stories.

Would you please share your stories of stars from home with us?

[He's expecting someone (three someones at different times), but feel free to answer in person, run across him in the library by chance, bug him about the books, anything.]

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[oceantrauma]

That's sad. And creepy. She was only a star, so she might have not known she would cause such destruction.

If this is a tale from your world, then, is it true, or just a legend? Because if it's true...doesn't your world risk her awakening again?

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[nohometown]

[He nods.] One could say she was acting according to her nature.

It's a very old story. There are many legends of that kind, and no reason to believe this one in particular is true. It's one of a series of stories that surrounds a race of people known as the Ancients. They lived on my Planet thousands of years ago, but they died out for an unknown reason. Perhaps this myth is a way of explaining what happened to them.

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[oceantrauma]

Yes. [He looks very sad to that, feeling a strange empathy without understanding the whole of it. He knew what he had done was wrong, in the end, at least.]

It's that kind of story. A legend, then. We have many stories like that in the world I live in, to explain why things work as they do, such as the seasons.

Do you have any others like that?

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[nohometown]

Precisely. A myth. Since no one knows what happened, they invented this story. Or perhaps something dangerous did fall to earth, or there was a plague.

[Not the most cheerful thoughts, but he sounds more thoughtful than sad.]

No, not many, not like that. I don't know many stories. I-- I knew someone who did, once. But I didn't often have time to hear them, and he was more interested in poems.

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[oceantrauma]

[Notes the tone, but doesn't think much on it. He's rather curious himself, though he finds this morbid.]

Well, thank you for sharing this one. Even if I'm left with more question, it can easily be summed up as, it's just a myth.