Stardust lay on her back, silently staring up at the night sky, contemplating the events of the day.
Everything seemed to be happening so fast, and she wasn't sure that was a good thing.
But, at least she was finally getting her adventure. Funny, she'd always figured it'd be more… action-packed.
Instead they'd just flown all day, and barely spoken to each other when they landed at a suitable campsite.
Borealis, especially, seemed to be drawing into himself, and avoiding any form of conversation or contact with Blossom.
Stardust wasn't sure what was going on between the two of them, but she intended to find out.
She focused harder on the night sky.
Sometimes she could see visions in them, little glimpses of what was to come mapping themselves into a starry mural.
She wasn't sure why, she hadn't been born under a full moon, only two almost full ones and a crescent.
After a few minutes of concentrating on the stars, she figured that if a vision wasn't coming now, it never was.
As she turned her head to the side, she caught an unusual glimmer in the corner of her eye.
Whipping her head around, she saw the stars begin to move, ever so slowly, forming an indistinct mass
As she watched, the mass shifted, and she could make out two Sandwings snarling fiercely. One's face was contorted into a mask of anger, and hatred, whereas the others had a tinge of regret tracing the warlike expression.
The stars moved once again, showing now a Seawing, chained to a wall, in a desolate prison. His mouth moved to form a faint smile, as an almost amused twinkle sat in his eye.
The stars moved faster and faster, creating and destroying visions faster than Stardust could comprehend. She only caught faint glimpses, a Rainwing and Icewing with tails intertwined, a MudWing creating an animate wall from the earth, a single seashell with the words 'Remember Me' engraved on it, and a Sandwing battling off hordes of soldiers to protect a wounded SkyWing.
All at once, the images dissolved, and the stars returned to being just stars, stationary in their spots in the night sky.
Stardust blinked, brain processing the overload of visions.
Reaching into her satchel, she pulled out a blank scroll and a quill, and began scratching down all that she could remember.
Xxx
Totem opened his eyes.
An irritating scratching sound had awoken him earlier, and no matter how he tried to ignore it, he finally had to give up, and get up.
Stardust was sitting atop a rock, fervently writing on a scroll.
She looked up as he stepped toward her.
"What are you doing Stardust?" He asked, taking a seat next to her.
"Writing" she said absentmindedly, continuing to scribble down words.
"Stardust, do you have any idea how early it is?" He sighed.
"No… I've been up all night, I guess I hadn't noticed the sun rising…" she replied, still more focused on her writing than in the conversation.
Totem looked out at the sunrise, a watery yellow glob inched it way over the distant hills, shedding a golden light over the land, as pink, orange, and light blue swirled across the sky like an artist's palette.
"What are you writing?" He leaned forward over Stardusts shoulder, peering at her scroll. Wordlessly she handed it to him.
"Sandwings battling, anger, regret." Read one line.
"It's from a vision I had last night" she explained.
"Vision? You're prophetic?" Totem exclaimed, shocked by this development that she threw out carelessly. He had thought she wouldn't be as open to sharing a secret of such magnitude, especially with him, a practical stranger.
"Well, sort of…" she flushed, snatching back her scroll and Laing it next to her on the rock.
"How can you be sort of prophetic?" Totem wondered.
"I see things, in the stars, sometimes…" Stardust trailed off.
Not knowing what else to say, Totem glanced at the silver Nightwing, to find her violet eyes glassy, and distant, as she stared at the rising sun.
Later, he would have to wake up Blossom and Borealis, and hustle everybody to go, but as for now? Now, he could enjoy watching a peaceful sunrise on a rock, in silence with Stardust.
Sorry for the short chapter, but since I've run out of chapters I wrote before I published this, the chapters will be somewhat shorter.
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