Prompt: The Moon has a personification (or two) and experiences the LCROSS mission.
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She and her sister have been called by many different names in their long, quiet existence. They are Luna and Diana and Selene and Maria and Terrae and Moon, but they have no concept of names and sisterhood. For them, they simply are. They've always been there and they believe they always will be, for they do not know how they were born and do not know how they could die.
One sister basks in the light of the sun and watches the planet she circles around and she so loves watching that place. It changes every time she sees it, and it is exquisite. The sisters do not understand names and sisterhood, but they do understand beauty.
The other sister doesn't see much of Sol, who soothes and lullabies and burns and parches them, but she hears the infinite songs of every star she can see. The sky is forever clear and the thousands of lights she can see each sing a different song. Sometimes she hears the faint drone of kyrie eléison and at others she hears revere the kind Sri Rama, who can remove the fear of rebirths.
The sisters love and understand the celestial music as well and in their world heated by Sol and sung to by the stars they have no understanding of loneliness either.
It is in their beautiful isolation that they are visited. They always go to one sister, who opens her arms to them and makes it easy to arrive. At first the only things she welcomes are dead things made of cold metal, but then she embraces strangers who move and do strange things that fascinate her as the swirling clouds do on the planet she circles. When they leave it means as little to her as a dying star, for stars come and go and so do strangers.
She welcomes more of these strange things when they come, and when they do not she opens her arms anyways and watches them. She sees one of these dead things fly past her and her sister and retreat, and she thinks that this is going to pass her a few times and fly away. And it does swish past them once more, and then turn back towards their green-and-blue planet they so adore.
It approaches again and this time it comes straight towards the sister who is so rarely seen and met with. She invites the dead thing towards her and it comes.
It strikes the sister who does not see Sol and the impact in her ice-solid toes shakes her to her core. It does not hurt, it is too small for that, but she feels something strange and new, the sensation her flesh is coming undone where she is struck and leaves her shaken. And she feels justified in nearing the stars at the cost of leaving her planet and Sol.
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A/N: Because I love you all/am really bored and cold (stupid snow), have my latest kink meme exploit.
Cultural/astronomical notes (my, this is new) that are entirely skippable:
-The Moon's been called quite a few things, so I used a few of those names. Of course, the sisters have no names, but if you want to be technical one represents the maria (found mostly on the "light side" of the moon) and the other represents the terrae (the highlands that dominate the "dark side").
-The Kyrie is a Christian hymn that translates essentially into "God forgive me/us".
-On the other hand, the other hymn is a Hindu bahja (I'm so sorry if I mispell this). I kinda wanted to use religious hymns from all over, so I figured this would work?
-Sol is technically not the name of our sun. It's just the Sun. But Sol looks cooler. The Sun, by the way, sublimated most of the water on the Moon a long time ago, so it's sort of parching the sisters.
-That thing that went past the Moon twice and then hit it is the LCROSS rocket. It crashed in the Moon on purpose to send dust from a crater (Cebeus A, I think) up into the air so a probe could test it for water.
-The Moon really is retreating from the Earth. I read somewhere it's going at a rate of 4cm a year, but that sounds a little fast.
-Thank you all for reading this exceedingly weird piece~