FALLEN

         “–?!” {/This was it, wasn’t it? Was Nicole was finally going to lose all sense? She was hearing a voice, a voice she didn’t recognize. And by no means could she imagine it, because in all the voices she’s created for her daydreams, none of them have ever sounded like this. Not to mention…what the hell did they know about her? Nicole wasn’t self sacrificing, she doesn’t think. She’s actually pretty selfish in her mind, only occasionally offering the helping hand.

          Adding to the theory that she’s losing it, something…was above her head. Looking up, she could see a star. While it did bring a sense of comfort to her, it was still unnerving. She couldn’t be the only one who saw it, right? Kazma did too, cause he was sitting by her feet and staring up at it.

          Flinching only slightly when it took form, all she could do was stare in absolute confusion and bewilderment. Much to her slight dismay, she couldn’t tell what they went by. Either male or female, she couldn’t tell. But they looked extremely docile all the same. Carefully stepping back, she scoops up her rabbit in her arms, just to offer him some comfort to the new resident.}

         “Uhhh…thank…ya? Bu’ I don’ think I need help righ’ now. Ya know? I go’ all my needs me’.”

                     *｡⋆ ☆     The floating star being didn’t see the small creature until Nicole picked it up,    it was one they have yet to see,    so small -- so cute -- so fluffy.     Star floats a little closer to Nicole’s shoulder to take a better look at the bunny,   momentarily distracted by the wish to pet it,    but that seems like a privilege they don't have,   so they will look but not touch.    They shake their head and tried to be less distracted.    “ No am sure I was called here to help you. Hold on. ”   

                               Delicate fingers grab to the air close to Nicole’s neck to take hold of the golden string which bounds Star to humans (so they can walk on earth),   it becomes visible by the human eye with a shine and it does show that both of their necks are tied to one another,    they are bound together.  “ Yeah,    there’s no mistake,    I am here for you. I’m Star and am here to help.  ”   They make their purpose once again clear.

                              “  Don’t worry, it’s perfectly common for you not to know what you need help with,   but there’s something. ”   They explain with a soft smile now pointing to Nicole's chest as if it has the answers.   

                              “ There’s something in your heart that needs me here.   Do you have any desperate wishes? ”  They ask with joy in their voice and figure a demonstration would be useful,    so with a soft giggle and a wiggle of their finger they make more bunnies appear --- likely more than needed,    but they’re so CUTE.

             at the sight of a little face so close to her own she jumps, having not seen them drifting close until they were mere inches away. “ h…h-hello! ” she croaks, startled. children really didn’t understand personal space, but that was okay. it wasn’t like she minded. they just caught her off guard; her mind tended to wander when not otherwise occupied.  she hasn’t even registered that she’s still in her own apartment yet. “ thank you, that’s very sweet. i’d like to think i am friendly. ” eve smiles patiently. a beat passes before brow furrows, confusion only etching itself into her features more deeply.

             “ w-wait, um…how did you get in here? you really shouldn’t go wandering into strangers’ homes, you know– ” at least it was her and not someone bad. did they live in her complex? she’d never seen them before. “ –worries? ” she parrots, head spinning with just everything she was faced with all of a sudden. “ i’m a little worried about where your parents are– ” she answers without thinking, having not realized she’d even opened her mouth.

                   *｡⋆ ☆     Offense is deeply taken as they meant to appear about her age -- but even be it they’re a little SHORT,   they didn’t think they looked nearly young enough to need parental supervision. RUDE... so RUDE...   “ I tell you I’m here to help you ---  and make all of your wishes come true and you insult me?  ”   The star being puffed their cheeks slightly upset,    their form now shrinks to be even smaller as their face becomes more round,    now truly looking like a child due to the way they’re perceived.

                        “ I would leave you right now if I could. ”     But they can’t so their own feelings matter little.    Plump fingers pull at the invisible string that now appears with a SHINE and it seems to be bounding both of their beings together.    Star has tried to snap the string many times to get away from the ruder humans,   but always to no avail,    it seems to be unbreakable by any means.

                       “ But as I can’t... I am Star.    I’ve been sent to earth to help you.. and until I do,    I can’t leave.   So,    be rude again and I’ll... do something. ”     They won’t,    they wouldn’t even know what do to - to get back at her. So much for she seems FRIENDLY.    Star gives her space and with a way of their finger flowers made of candy grow from her floor. 

          He’s always felt somewhere in his heart that the universe was determined to 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚 him with unhappiness. Maybe that feeling is wrong, maybe it’s just that he’s not very likable and what he’s feeling is his own fault, but he’s never managed to hold on to happiness for long. He can’t keep a steady relationship to save his life, he’s lost all his friends, and he’s just barely holding himself together with 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙖𝙥𝙚 at this point, working himself to exhaustion to avoid dreaming.

          Sometimes he just dreams anyway, and wakes up crying. Crying for the people who left him, or 𝙖𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙙 him, and most notably, his mother and father. They hadn’t even left him with someone to raise, they had just… left him in the jungle to die. That’s how his mum had found him– just a babe in a basket, hanging from a tree branch like an offering to the birds to take him away.

          When he returned to the jungle as an adult, searching for some sign of the nymphs who had thrown him away, he did find his mother. He found her happy, with a daughter, hardly thinking about the son she left for 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙙. And when he spoke to her, in a dead language he didn’t know he spoke, she only confirmed for him his worst fears– that she had abandoned him knowing something would take him away. That they had thought he would be an omen of destruction, and had left him for Hades to claim. They had never expected a human to find him– they had never expected for him to 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚.

          When he asked about his father, it wasn’t much better. He wasn’t there with the village, of course. His mother said he was as bright and as beautiful as the 𝙨𝙪𝙣, and that he didn’t want either of them, so he should quit searching.

          Desmond hopes she’s eaten alive with guilt every day for the way he cried when she told him. Because every awful thing he’d ever thought about himself was true– he was cursed, he was unwanted, and he was just as worthless as he thought.

          He’s in a dream forcing him to remember it all when he feels something shaking him, and he wakes in a panic, tears still wet on his face, his hair and pillow damp. When his eyes adjust to being awake, he sees the person’s form changing in front of him into an attractive young man.

          There’s many reactions Desmond considers. Were it a few years ago– before he’d met all sorts of things that go bump in the night– he might have screamed at this weird intrusion into his home. But now he’s just tired, and sad, and 𝙬𝙚𝙩.

          “Uh. Hi. Sorry I feel like I… missed the memo. Why are you here?”

                *｡⋆ ☆     The Entity pauses,    blank-faced,    looking as if they’re scanning their mental database for the word ‘ memo ’.    Star has never heard such a word used and became baffled -- but shrugged it off as a ‘ mortal thing ’.   Since they can only be on earth bounded to one of it’s living, they don’t ever get to learn of COMMON EARTH things,   thus,   many things to them seem odd and normal phrases are alien to them.    “ I came from the sky? ”    They simply replied unsure how to respond.    They leaned over to wipe the tears from Indigo orbs and give a few comforting pets to fluffy green locks.

                            “ And I’m here to help you... I call myself Star. ”    Confusion is normal from the living,    so as Star has done a hundred times over,    they start to explain.   The comforting hand advances towards the lonely neck,   frigid fingers grab at the air barely an inch away from the skin to reveal a GOLD and SHINING string around the nymph’s neck that’s tieing him to the odd star being.    They give it a tug and it shines brighter as if they just irritated it. 

                           “ Something inside you called me here to earth for help.    So... I can’t return home until I’ve helped you and until then we’re bound together. ”    They free the string and it disappears once more.   Most people don’t take this as PROOF and so Star gives Desmond space before lips pucker and blow into a pale palm,   suddenly butterflies are created from NOTHING.    They flutter around the room before popping into star-shaped bubbles that smell of roses.  

                *｡⋆ ☆     Star took the form of a cute girl with long black princess-like hair,    BUT they couldn’t get a read off of the male.    This has to be a MISTAKE,    Star thinks,    this has never happened.   Their slippers clap against the floor as the step forward to get a better look at the male.    Still,   they sensed nothing so Star double check this is the human they are supposed to help.    Star pulls at an invisible string made of stardust with small fingers,   it then becomes visible to the human,   shining with starlight and is tied around both of their necks.   This is proof of the contract Star is here to fulfill. 

                   OOC:: SO LIKE, I deleted all of my icons when I left Tumblr a year ago and all of the manga I downloaded. So coming back here I have nothing. BUT, I had some of my stuff on google drive and I spent two hours trying to get it to let me download it and BOOM. Am so fucking happy I have my stuff. icon making should go faster.