an~ counterpart to sunshine and moon. daphne has always struck me as kind of alonesome perosn, so this fits. three parter is complete! and 40 chapters! 60 left! oh yeah!
Stars are Daphne's favorite thing in the whole world.
She compares people to stars. Some are brighter than others, some fade into the background, some form clusters, some stand alone. Some move sightly, over time.
She thinks her parents are two stars set close to each other, but not directly next to each other, like Granny and Grandpa Bail had been.
Grandpa Basil's star had died, but it hadn't become a black hole. Granny misses him, but she was able to move on, she doesn't need him anymore.
Many of the everafter's stars are stuck together, permanently attatached. They're so close they look like one star with a bulge on either side. Snow White and Prince Charming are like that.
Granny's star stands in a group of people, a very large star with several other stars orbiting around it. These stars are the people who she has touched, the ones she's affected, helped in some way.
Uncle Jake's star is more of a comet than an actual star in that it moves. It seems to be settling down now, but it still has a tendency to move form place to place.
Mr. Canis orbits around Granny, and his star is slightly malformed, it has spots of off color, where the Wolf has left its scars.
Red is like that, too. Her dark spots are clearing up fast, though.
Sabrina and Puck's stars are orbiting around each other, moving closer all the time, but fighting over their galaxies and anything else that comes near. They get even closer today, and Daphne hopes that soon, the fights will stop and tehy will learn to share, no matter how quiet the house may seem without them.
Daphne sees her own star as off to itself. Her obrit through the solar system of life brings her close to others, but it always ended up by itself, a bit apart from the rest of the galaxy.
She watched as Sabrina and Puck sat down, saw them hold hands under the table, and smiled. It wasn't that she was lonely, she was quite happy to watch other people fall in love, and maybe to help them out. But she wanted another star next to her own soon, just a friend, because she was too young for a boyfriend, but someone would be nice.
Still, there was plenty of time, and the universe was a big place. There was another lonesome star out there someplace.