✨ And the lights go out… literally. For some reason, the spotlights dim for Artaresto’s performance.
🌇 The elf steps onto the stage — and seems to dissolve into the half-darkness. His act feels like the quietest, calmest one we’ll see tonight. The light around him has almost vanished, leaving only a soft, warm beam from a single spotlight, just enough to trace the outline of his figure.
He stands still, his voice steady and serene. No sharp accents, no flashy effects — just pure music and sincerity. There’s something mesmerizing about that calmness, as if all the glitter and bright fame of the other performers has been replaced with a quiet moment of meditation… Orodret sings, and one by one tiny lights begin to bloom in the audience — lanterns lifted by the spectators. A gesture of support that turns the hall into a starry sky for a few brief minutes.
And when he finishes, silence settles over the room — the kind that feels like true immersion, leaving everyone deep in thought.
💎SONG LYRICS💎(translated from russian)
In the silence of night, in the shadow of the heart,
A quiet call resounds — a voice out there, afar…
An asteroid has slipped from orbit, lost its way,
Star-dust of my thoughts — so weightless, fine,
It forms the nebulae; will black holes swallow them?
They are loneliness, a funeral chime, a note of fear…
Yet they only let me remember the meaning of warmth more clearly.
Et lux in tenebris lucet —
And light shines in the darkness,
A tenderness is born within,
And fear departs. Only dawn remains.
My little asteroid, where sunset is almost eternal,
My distant, unattainable home…!
In every step beyond the edge of hope, in every note, in every word,
The present shines like a sun for the future, so we remember what once was.
My gaze is fixed ahead, beyond the bounds of this planet;
I leave it behind, I run — yet there is no line of horizon,
But the resolve to open this world for myself is a flame
That leads straight into the heart of a dream.
A warm wind whispers to me that spring will come,
That roses will bloom… And suddenly I remember —
My rose I left there, on that little rock; she
Is awake. She loves me. She must miss me… doesn’t she?
In the frames of memory — light, the ray of a sunset,
And a friend I’m responsible for, since I once tamed him myself.
And just like that, a dragon doesn’t seem quite so frightening anymore.
At night, the dawn goes out…
Or it’s the glow that fades.
In all the world, among hundreds of thousands of stars, you will be the one and only star for me.
