~ Day 22- Stars ~
"And what is that constellation called?", Takane asked as she leaned forwards on the bed to look into the book on astronomy that Haruka had found God-knows-where.
"Ah, that one is...", he began and searched through the names at the side. "I guess it's the Gemini constellation? It looks like two lines, so it should be."
"Do you know the story to that one, too?", she wondered a little intrigued. Before, Haruka had been able to retell some exciting sounding Greek myth in relation to the constellation. Takane had never thought about Haruka as someone who would be into mythology, but he apparently was. Somewhat.
He thought for a second. "Probably. If it's the one I think it is, then it's pretty well-known, anyways." Then, he cleared this throat. "There were two half-brothers, Pollux and Castor. Pollux was the child of a God and a Goddess, and thus he was immortal", Haruka said but then frowned a bit. "Whose kid was he?"
"It doesn't matter, does it?", Takane urged him on and stared at the page where Haruka's long digit rested against a few connected, light blue dots.
"Um, so Castor was the child of the same God and a human woman and was therefore mortal", he went on and stared at his fingers. "They got along well until Castor got fatally wounded someplace and died. So Pollux begged his father to bring him back, still, because he was important to him."
"Excuse me", Takane interrupted. Haruka smiled at her patiently. "Were they... you know? In love?", she muttered and blushed at the implication and the kind of relationship they'd have led, then.
"Maybe?", Haruka told her. "But these things are handled loosely in mythology." He looked concentrated for a second before he continued his initial story. "So, Castor died and their father told Pollux to get him from Hades. And when he got him back, he shared his immortality with him so they became the Gemini constellation."
Takane frowned. "It doesn't work that way, though", she said and Haruka nodded at that. "If it were that easy, then we could pull second chances at life out of our asses."
"Well, who knows. Maybe, in some distant galaxy, there is a Takane constellation?", he laughed softly and looked at Takane with a somewhat mischievous glint in his eyes. The girl pouted.
"How'd it look, then? If those two are nothing but lines, what would I be?", she asked, sounding a little offended. "Or the Haruka constellation! What would that be?"
Haruka hummed a bit in thought and stared at the ceiling. "If we watch the stars more closely, we can find those constellations, can't we?", he wondered and smiled at Takane. "Perhaps they even are together because our stars are friends?"
"Stars don't have friends, you dolt."
"Pollux has Castor, though."
"Shut up."
A/N: Starting with this, my dearest biatch will update in my stead until next week, for I'm in France. The chapters are still written by me, but, well. If something is missing, I'm actually not responsible.