heed the stars (their light will leave us in the dark)

[himejoshiheart]

Author: Chibi
Story: Memory of Cacophony
Color: Color Spray (dispel magic)
Styles and Supplies: graffiti (songfic challenge - song is Two Of A Kind by Ghost 'n Pals), diptych + oils (lyricaltitles  duet fic - Different songs with a shared subject or theme (separation between two people)), gesso (pixel cat's end), chiaroscuro, canvas
Summary: Orbit's village fades away.
Prompt Reasoning: the village is disappearing. like magic.
Wordcount: 296

The stars are melting away.

They say you think a lot about something when it's about to disappear. When it's the last time you get to have it, it becomes something special. Something to be thought over.

It starts when the letters Orbit gets from home slow down.

There's nothing in them to suggest their fate- nothing to suggest that the village he loved so near and dear to his heart was disappearing, nothing that suggested any final goodbyes.

But he has dreams. Visions. He looks up at the night sky and the stars melt into nothingness. The strings of fate are being untied, the address he writes on his letters to home becoming more and more unreadable by the day.

Their memories are fading, too. The address they write is more on instinct- he can't remember the faces of the not-cats he's addressing- their names are merely unreadable scribbles, too.

At night, he sees them. Turning around to face him, to show him a place that he cannot see- visual white noise, as unreadable as the scribbles he writes to home.

He heeds the stars- his eyes point up towards them, he walks, seeking home, until at once he looks up in a field and knows he's where he should be, all four paws on familiar soil.

But there's no buildings, no other not-cats. It was as if this was like any part of Terra- the wilderness, or a place for perhaps a future village.

Left in the dark, he turns around. Dimly, now, they remember the letters, the dreams- as watching from afar, as the village faded and ceased to be.

As the kingdom faded and ceased to be.

The stars had melted away, now, and now, Orbit's life would never be the same.