Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
"Rin. You should be sleeping."
"The stars woke Rin up."
A raised eyebrow.
"They are so beautiful and bright and shiny. Always there."
A pause.
"Like Sesshoumaru-sama!"
An afterthought, and a smile.
She yawned. It wasn't long before she was curled up asleep on the ground next to him.
He stared out into the night.
I am not blind to my own beauty.
But she was wrong. Stars were light, through and through. And while he was many things, light was certainly not one of them.
A shooting star shot across the sky.
I am not the star here, Rin.