There was no moon tonight which allowed the stars to shine down upon them uninhibited, their lights twinkling in the night sky like raindrops catching the sun. Nights like these were perfect for her stargazing for the constellations were never brighter than when they didn’t have to share the sky. It was only made better by her best friend joining her for tonight’s session. The brown and black pair danced in the forest clearing for a moment, laughing and yipping playfully and it did her heart good to see Zelda so happy. It was the star-touched girl’s only real goal in life to make her friend happy and smile. Zelda was so smart, brilliant even, but she could get too introverted from time to time and Astraea loved nothing more than to help her forget about all the thoughts and questions running around her head and just enjoy life!

Her long, dark tail waved excitedly behind her as they settle with Zelda inquiring after her family, ever the responsible one she was. She responded of course, in her flippant far off sort of way. There could be no doubt that she loved her family dearly but as of late, and far too often, her thoughts had been elsewhere; either high in the skies above or in the deepest of the trolls lairs or floating with the fairies. All things not of this world seemed to call to her, but she was lucky to have a friend like Zelda to tie her here, else she might turn into her uncle Starfall and not know where reality ended and the other began. She is excited, however, and a bit surprised to hear that Zelda had gone out and made another friend, this one a boy no less! “I have missed you too, Zelly!” she responds enthusiastically, moving to nuzzle her slender head beneath her friend’s head, much in the same way she did her parents. “I’m happy you’ve made a new friend, I cannot wait to meet him! Though I’m not surprised I don’t know him, even if we are related. Do you know how many cousins I have? Almost as many stars as there are in the sky.” She stops only briefly to giggle, turning the split violet and gold of her gaze upward before continuing. “Though maybe I could meet him. I’ve been meaning to go to Diveen and see my Grandmother, I have some questions for her.”

Trailing off she realized she had been rambling, as she sometimes tended to do and her good natured friend was too kind to interrupt her. Looking a bit sheepish she turned back to Zelda. “Sorry, so tell me about him! What’s his name, what’s he like, is he handsome?” There is a bit of a teasing tone in her last words, eyes crinkling as her star dusted head tilted dramatically.