Geeky corner: Antares is actually called Heart of the Scorpion, and it's a star glowing with ruby red. The end of my astronomic knowledge. Anyway, I liked the suggestion under it: the heart of a scorpion, the most vulnerable spot of a predator's body. Seemed quite fitting.

Enjoy!

P.S.: Yeah. I quoted Ygritte from ASOIAF.

Antares – Heart of the Scorpion

No place is safe. He always said it.

He had said it in the desolate peace of Namecc, looking at the sky over their hideout; glimpsing there falls of starships and thousand routes and maybe his death too.

A safe place, Kakarot? Ah, there is no such thing. You hide too long, you die. You fight and maybe, maybe as long as your body obeys and your heart pounds and someone wants to rip off your heart, you are safe. Fate could not touch you. But you don't feel it, you fool.

Vegeta had smiled, lips showing little hard teeth.

You don't even feel it.

He said it again the first night they shared, as hands stumbled upon each other's scars and Goku was desperately trying to make it romantic; and he had just hold Vegeta tighter, because that night it sounded almost like a blessing. He had repeated it shoving him away with bleeding hands and shaking with outrage and letting him silence all the words with a kiss. He had said it with a slave's mark on his forehead, and that time Goku cried because he nearly believed him.

No place is safe, Kakarot, and you're a fool. We will die. We will fall. We will see everything crumble and all the days end and your stupid faith die along the weakers' bodies.

At the center of Vegeta's illusions was the perfect lens of a microscope: the ghosts under it were very real and very near. You could not ignore them. Vegeta was fearless, Vegeta was strangely wise. You could not ignore him. You could not escape him.

You know nothing. You're such a fool.

He repeated it everytime he woke up in bed, eyes wide and foreign prayers trapped in his teeth.

No place is safe, he said, as his arms wrapped around Goku's chest and pretended not to shiver. Remember it, Kakarot.

Yes Vegeta, he answered every time, holding tight his hands.

No place is safe.