Stargazer the NightWing

"So much of my life gone, wiped away like a dream fading in the first rays of dawn. And yet, I sleep sound at night: for the walls of the Starlit Path keep me safe, and my brother's love shines on me like the gentlest moonlight. I shall stay here. Safe. Protected. Unburdened."

@depths_dragon I'm sorry I did! It just happens! I didn't want to be rude. :(

@NotAnAnimus I mean!! My future friends are very important!!! Just not something important enough to matter if *you* forgot.

I always get so embarrassed when referring to my father as my "dad". It just feels... improper.

@depths_dragon Oh, but that DOES sound important! Who doesn't think their friends are important?

@NotAnAnimus … It wasn’t important. We were just talking about my future friends. Nothing more.

@depths_dragon I-I'm sorry, I think I... lost something there. Did I have this headache just a moment ago? Moons...

@NotAnAnimus … huh!

@depths_dragon I-I don't want to forget this but I feel it already slipping, sometimes I just feel like NO WAY OUT THERE IS NO WAY OUT THERE IS NO SAFE REFUGE OUTSIDE THE PATH STAY WITHIN THE PATH STAY HIDDEN STAY SAFE WITHIN ITS WALLS THEY MUST NOT FIND THEY MUST NOT KNOW THEY WILL NOT KNOW

@NotAnAnimus Feel what, Stargazer?

@depths_dragon Or... maybe that's the problem...? I... well. Maybe it's not quite the same but I do something similar, see? Never leaving Possibility. Hardly ever stepping out of my Starlit Path. And sometimes I just feel... I...

@NotAnAnimus You’re right. It has to be whatever gave me that false vision messing with my mind again. I’m doing the same thing I’ve always been doing.

@depths_dragon And yet your visions stopped. So either something is wrong with your powers, or with what you are doing.

@NotAnAnimus It won't die out if I stay doing what I've been, but if I go to the surface I'll never meet them -never meet *her*.

@depths_dragon Then I guess that future will die out. I thought... Well, maybe it's just not meant to be. Maybe some things just go on forever as they are.

@NotAnAnimus I'm not going to the surface.

@depths_dragon The one thing a dragon living in isolation can change.

@NotAnAnimus Change *what*, though?! You can't just tell me to change something and not elaborate.

@depths_dragon Well. I know it's ironic coming from me but maybe in order for that to happen you must... change something?

@NotAnAnimus I don't know *how*, though. That's the issue.

@depths_dragon What if... you are the one supposed to set all of the events in motion? The ones that will bring you and your friend together.

@NotAnAnimus ... yeah.

@depths_dragon ... Something terrible must have happened, then.

@NotAnAnimus Eh... Carrion's not really the leader-ly type, I don't think. He was the Bigwings of his own sibs, but he gave up the role when joining up with another group.

@depths_dragon Well... the fact that there's a non-SeaWing among them seems relevant. Maybe everything revolves around him. Like the Bigwings of the group! How sweet is that?✨

@NotAnAnimus They are Seawings! Don't worry! Well -Carrion's a Mudwing, but still. I should end up meeting him after Clownfish. ... do I end up meeting him after Clownfish?

@depths_dragon I think that might be related to deciding not to come to the surface ever? At best you can meet SeaWings down there, but you're not exactly fond of them if I understand correctly. And if those friends are not SeaWings, well...

@NotAnAnimus A lot. There's just been... so much going on recently. ... Mostly, I've not had visions about my future friends since I went to the Kingdom of Ice. I think I messed something up.

@depths_dragon I'm sorry to hear that. What's on your mind?

@NotAnAnimus No, it’s fine. Sorry. I’ve just been a little out of it lately.

@depths_dragon Oh. Did I say something wrong?

@NotAnAnimus ... Right.

@depths_dragon All the more reason to hold on to that. I think it makes him smile, wherever he is now.

@NotAnAnimus I have been.

@depths_dragon Hold those memories close to your heart. Take it from someone who mostly only remembers his days as a dragonet. There's no reason to distance ourselves from things that made us happy.

@NotAnAnimus I was a dragonet when I started doing it. It’d feel fake to stop calling him it now.

@depths_dragon I... well, I think it's something you should cherish. That sounds like nice, fond memories. They are precious, and you shouldn't feel ashamed.

@NotAnAnimus Eugh… I don’t know. My father was always giving me sappy nicknames so I think it was just something I started doing to balance it out?

@skywingking12 As you wish. I heard that placing products is easier with a bit of propag- No wait, it's called advertisement when it's legit, right?

@NotAnAnimus “Pff. No. That won’t be necessary.”

“Starting to wonder if perhaps.. perhaps I should try getting out there again. Dating wise. Ugh.. this is embarrassing to say out loud.”