Avaris

A Message from the Stars

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  1. At first invisible to the naked eye, a single star descends from the sunlit heavens, trailing
  2. sparkles that glitter and evanesce as it draws near. Ultimately tiny - yet radiant with its
  3. effulgent iridescence all the same - it settles in your hands, quietly twinkling.
  4.  
  5. Like a wisp of glimmering delight, this infinitesimally small star
  6. drifts here, flashing radiance reminiscent of diamonds catching and
  7. casting prisms in the sun. Unlike them, however, the iridescent light
  8. cascading from this heavenly body radiates from within. Its touch is a
  9. mild but bracing comfort, a breath of nighttime tranquillity that can be
  10. cradled in the palm but never fully caged between closed fingers. Even
  11. in hand, its weightless form eludes possession, gently buoyed by its own
  12. charmed and wishful existence as though questing for release into the
  13. skies from whence it came.
  14. It has 66 months of usefulness left.
  15. It weighs 1 ounce(s).
  16. It bears the distinctive mark of Vaevaya, the Refulgent.
  17. It is folded from vellum into an action origami.
  18. It is closed and you can not see inside of it.
  19. It has the following aliases: star, origami, actionorigami.
  20.  
  21. Catching the descent of the star from the periphery of their visions, many of the
  22. eyes within Avaris's wings flick up to trace the glimmering object as it nears, their regard open
  23. and curious, but not alarmed. Cupping the twinkling, brilliant object carefully in the bowl of his
  24. conjoined hands, the light it gives off glitters and shines off the lustrous, burnished gold of the
  25. kephera's chitin as he studies it with restrained delight.
  26.  
  27. A coruscating star unfolds and sings to you, "Thank you for playing with me, Avaris! I hope you will
  28. wish upon me tonight, as I make this wish upon you - that you see yourself how I see you, fiercely
  29. bright and glowing like a steady beacon of light to guide us all."
  30. A coruscating star flutters apart in wisps of vellum and disappears from your hands.
  31.  
  32. A shimmer of starlight ripples across the late afternoon sky, an iridescent wave of greeting before
  33. its glimmer recedes once more into the fading sunlight.
  34.  
  35. Turning his great, helm-like head up to the sky, Avaris lifts his right pair of
  36. hands up in a stately arc of greeting in turn, eyes glittering with motes of shining light.
  37.  
  38. You think to yourself: "Ah, she is such a wonderful being. Even where she not a star, I think, she
  39. would brighten all around her simply by existing." The lively voice replayed once more, the words
  40. considered with a benign gravity. "Is that how she sees me? Perhaps it is merely the reflections of
  41. others upon my armour. Still - I shall be sure to make a wish upon you, good-hearted Lady."
  42.  
  43. ((Later!))
  44.  
  45. Across the heavens, the stars and moon challenge night's dark reign, revealing familiar
  46. constellations that tell the tales of myth and legend.
  47.  
  48. Clasping his hands together before him, fingers interlocked into a bludgeon of
  49. deadly points and adamant plating, Avaris turns his head up to the night sky, looking upon the stars
  50. in silence.
  51.  
  52. You think to yourself: "What should I wish for? I could pretend that I would be so noble as to wish
  53. for peace and an end to the world's suffering, but...What I really wish for, Lady Vaevaya, is for
  54. Her to be happy. With or without me."
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