PROLOGUE

There was once a little boy, a boy who felt so alone in the world, like no one loved him. His own family was very cruel to him: they rarely fed him and kept him locked in the basement. They only let him out to clean their house or cook their food. He had his own bathroom, but it was in the most disgusting of states. The boy didn't understand what he did to make them hate him. If he knew, maybe he could fix it.

Alas, it never changed. For the first eight years of his life the boy endured this and no one came to save him. He was so alone, that he resorted to talking to the stars. They were his friends, he even named them. That one on the far left was Casseiopia, a little bit to the right of her was Corvus, her husband. On the far left rested Cygnus, and his brothers and sisters, Lea, Virgo, Crux, Perseus, Taurus, and Lyra were scattered in the middle. He loved them all. Sometimes when he was having a bad day, the boy would ask wish on the stars for a better family. He never got one.

Until one day, the boy's worst day so far. His foster father held his hand on the burner for much too long because he burnt the morning eggs. Crying and in pain, the boy ran outside and looked up beseechingly at the currently invisible stars.

It was then that he said the magic words. "Please, please if I can't have a better family on Earth can you take me to the stars?"

The boy was sobbing his heart out, and if you had blinked at that moment you would have missed it, for he was gone.

For you see, he wasn't really a human boy. He was a shooting star, a star born by stars and placed on Earth to live among passers and when they died in that life, the fallen stars would become real stars.

Casseiopia and Corvus, the boy's parents were saddened by the treatment he received on Earth and took him back the second he uttered the right words. He wouldn't be able to stay in the sky. He would have to live out his life once he found the right place and time.

After decades of watching, he finally found his place. Right next to another little boy. Hopefully, Cepheus' life would go right this time.