#renla

Stars: Our characters under the stars together

"I hope you realise that I am not happy with this scenario," Jade tells Renla, "you’re lucky the moon is new or I wouldn’t be here."

Renla glances at her idly, scoffing before turning back to the sky, dotted with stars, varying in brightness and colour. “Oh I know, but you would have left by now if you really wanted to.”

Jade huffs but doesn’t answer, adjusting her dress idly around herself before she lies down, looking up at the sky with little interest.

"Y’know, Father destroyed stars, when he sailed through the cosmos on the Nightmare Galleon," Jade starts, bored at the sight of twinkling blackness.

"You can’t destroy stars," Renla scoffs. "That’s impossible."

"Father did, he completely annihilated the constellations, the noble families of the cosmos, and then he heard of a child who had never had a nightmare." Jade is actually relaxing, and Renla rolled her eyes disbelievingly. "The young Tsar Lunanoff, and so Father came up with a plan, to turn the child into his Darkling Prince."

"So you weren’t his first."

"No, I’m his first, Father didn’t succeed," Jade explains. "You see, no-one knows what happened to Tsar Lunanoff’s family, but Father told me it was the wicked Nightlight that stopped him. To protect the Lunanoff family, he drove his diamond staff deep into Father’s chest. But Nightlight was made of light, and diamonds… They refract light… Nightlight was sucked into Father’s chest, neutralising them both, and for a long long time, Father was stuck, in a cave of darkness, until a moonbeam accidentally freed them.” She smiled, seemingly lost in the stars above.

"Whoa…" Renla says slowly.  "How old is Pitch?”

Jade shrugs. “Don’t know, old…. But I like that story, it’s the only one Father told me.”

Renla hums, what a Father if that was the type of Bedtime story he told. She glances at the girl again. “Do you like the view? Or do you want to destroy it?” she asks slowly, curious.

Jade’s quiet for a while.