Then Sun did something quite extraordinary. He exploded, he went nova with rage. The power from the blast sent Moon, World and all other planets spinning and shaking out of control. They flew to the farthest reaches of the heavens and beyond. As they rocketed around on their journey, pieces of them flew off as they ricocheted with boundless, unnatural kinetic energy. The Sun, exhausted from the effort, was now but a tiny neutron. From the asteroid belt, Star glided forward, closer to any of them than she’d ever been before. Her smooth face grew close to the Sun’s and her lips pressed against his steaming, glowing remains.
It’s you that I love, she said in a gentle, feminine whisper. As her lips pressed against his, he felt his full energy return and he grew twofold every second. She led him away, through the dancing, flickering lights that patterned the heavenly skies, and the two were contented. Moon returned having circumnavigated all of creation, the brutal kinetic energy that fuelled his voyage subsided. Hopelessly, he watched, as Star and Sun eloped together, leaving him to wallow in his sadness. Tears and fragments of rock, shattered by the Sun’s blast, fell from Moon onto the World below, as his falsely inflated balloon of confidence burst, leaving only emptiness.
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