Irelia stared at the creature directly in front of her. In the candlelight Irelia could see the creature was almost human, but was covered in pale-blue skin and had long white flowing hair. Its hands and feet were bound and its mouth was gagged, and it was clearly in a lot of pain. Then the nurse ran in.

"Is everything OK oh my god you shouldn't be in here"

"What's going on here?!" Irelia tried to keep herself from screaming.

"S-she was unconscious before and we didn't know what she was going to do!"

Irelia tore the gag off but the creature was losing conciousness again "H-help…..Starlight…."

"You better not be responsible for this!" Irelia desperately tried to find the problem, and then noticed the chest wound.

"Her wound got infected and we can't find a way to treat it!"

"Starlight…..Please…."

"Starlight? What are you…" Then she noticed the window. "Undo the binds! We need to get her to a window!"

"Are you serious?"

"I think she knows what she's doing!"

Irelia grabbed the creature and carried her out of her room towards the window. The creature was light as a feather, and clearly emaciated. "This better work!"

As Irelia neared the window she thought there was more light coming through the window. "So what's meant to be happening…"

Then she knew there was more light coming through the window.

"Shut your eyes!"

The light kept getting brighter, getting so bright that Irelia had to shut her eyes and wondered how no-one would notice….and then it stopped.

Irelia opened her eyes.

The creature was standing there with her chest wound having completely disappeared, looking quite relieved.

"Thank you"

Irelia stood there in shock for a few seconds before gathering her wits "Are you a-alright?"

"Yes. I hope I did not cause you any problems."

"What are you?"

"That is a question for another time when it is more convenient for both of us. Do you wish to meet tomorrow?"

Irelia suddenly realised how tired she was.

"Y-yeah that seems like a good idea. You're not going anywhere are you?"

There was a long pause before the creature replied

"No, I guess not."

And with that unusual answer and an endless string of questions repeating themselves in her head, Irelia walked home, passing out as soon as she found her bed.

Once everyone had left Soraka got up from where she had been sitting. Walking over to the window she looked out at the stars and said to no-one in particular "Thankyou"

Irelia woke up the next day and practically ran into the hospital with excitement. She quickly made it over to the receptionist only to realise that she didn't know whether the creature had a name or not.

"Hi, I'm looking for…"

"You're looking for Soraka? The blue creature?"

"Yeah. Wait how did you…."

"She's somewhere on level 2. Just keep looking and you'll find her"

"…..Thank you"

It didn't take Irelia long to find Soraka, who was completely surrounded by patients.

"What's going on? Are you alright?"

" I was helping these people with their injuries."

Irelia stood there in shock for a few minutes before coming to her senses and pulling Soraka out into the hallway.

"We need to talk. What ARE you?"

"I am a celestial being.

"A what?"

"A star. I decided to live in Runeterra so that I could stop people suffering and heal their injuries. For 700 cycles I was happy. Then someone I knew was attacked. I fought them off but the stars abandoned me and I became mortal in the process."

"And that's where you got your injuries?"

"Yes."

Irelia got the feeling Soraka was hiding something, but decided not to investigate any further. "So….are going to be returning to your home soon?"

"No. I don't know how to return there. And even if I did…"

Realising Soraka looked like she was going to cry Irelia decided to offer help

"Why don't you stay with me while you're here?"

Soraka stopped.

"Thank you for the offer but I wouldn't want to trouble you.."

"No it's fine. I have a large family." Irelia tried to look as sincere as possible and found apparently it was working. Soraka suddenly realising that she was already indebted to Irelia, decided to accept the offer. "Thank-you. It would be an honor."

And with that they left the hospital.

Soraka found herself staring at her surroundings in amazement as they walked through the garden. "It's beautiful."

"This isn't even one of the larger gardens in Ionia. One of the gardens is so large, it takes up nearly half of the city." The garden was filled with vibrant autumn colours, with enormous lines of red and blue flowers stretching towards a river. The view was so entrancing that Soraka found herself standing by the bank of the river without realising it.

"When me and my brother were children, we would sit on the roots of that tree over there on the edge of the river and pretend we were fishing."

Soraka smiled. "Your kind have very unusual lifespans if nothing changes throughout your childhood."

Irelia laughed "Making fun of me are you? Well was your childhood interesting?"

"Would you regard a supernova as interesting?"

"A what?

"….never mind."

A few more minutes of walking passed during which Soraka remained silent. The walking had taken them out of the city and onto a path that led through some grassy plains. The only building that Soraka could see around the flat plains was a temple in the distance and she wondered how far they would possibly have to walk.

Then Irelia spoke again "Soraka…..we're here"

Soraka looked up. As they grew nearer to the building she thought was a temple Soraka realised that it was actually a house, although the sheer size of it meant that you could have 15-20 people living in it comfortably.

"Is this your house?"

"It's my families. I have a smaller place a little further round the back. Irelia grabbed a hooded cloak off a clothesline "Here put this on."

"I don't think…."

"I don't want you to gather attention yet. People might think you're… too unusual. And besides, it's mine."

As Soraka reluctantly finished putting the cloak on they walked through the temples centre and out into a larger outdoor area that was filled with small buildings. Irelia walked up to one of the buildings and opened the door. "This is where we're sleeping." Soraka looked at her in confusion. "I think there's another mattress in here somewhere…you want to look in a few of the cupboards?" "Ok…..Oof!" Irelia laughed. Soraka looked at her and sulked.

"….."

"Well you found it at least!"

"…."

"God you look so cute when you sulk like that."

"Cute?"

"….Never mind. Can you wait here for 15 minutes? I need to talk to someone."

Soraka's mind was still buzzing with questions but before she could mentioned anything Irelia left.

"Wait….."

Well she thought, at least she had some time to herself.

" Wait. Why am I trusting her? She could be manipulating me, trying to…."

She tried to shut the thought out of her head but it kept going.

"She's human. And humans are all manipulative. Think of Warwick, what he did to yo-"

"Enough." She spoke out loud to no-one in particular.

Thinking to herself she decided "Well I may as well have a look around."

A quick look around indicated nothing other than basic belongings. Then something caught her eye. "Where'd this tube come from? Must have fallen out of the cupboard from earlier."

Opening the cupboard she looked inside then gasped. "Blades? What are these…."

Images flooded into her head of people coming to her, begging, pleading for her to fix their injuries. "But why would she…." Memories of Warwick pushing the knife into her chest surfaced and suddenly she found herself overwhelmed with panic. Voices screamed in her head "She's an assassin she wants to kill you, you have to get out of here go gogogo"

In a blind panic in the black of night with the cloak still covering her face, Soraka found herself running out of the temple and onto the plains.

"Zelos?" Irelia walked through the hallway down to near the front of the house. Zelos could be anywhere in the house right now, but she knew he would nearly always be in the dining room at this stage. She was just about to turn the corner when someone came around the corner from the other direction and ran headlong into her.

"What the-?" She was just about to tell them to look where they were going for once when she realised she had no idea who they were.

"You're Master Lito's daughter?"

She froze instinctively as a rising sense of dread grew inside her.

"I'm from the hospital, I'm afraid I have some bad news….."