"I once saw the stars fall, their light dimmed and gone."
The silent watcher cupped grains of sand in her hands, but they slipped through her fingers. The black particles turned into white fireflies the instant they touched the ground, drifting in every direction.
In a hoarse voice, she slowly began telling the visitors from millions of years in the future the story the gods had hidden away.
"She embraced all living beings with compassion, her pure, immaculate wings soaring in the wind. She was just like a human, and yet like a goddess..."
"I still remember her funeral..."
"They buried her beneath pure white petals and kissed her peaceful face, as if she were asleep. Yet they whispered in her ear, unwilling to let her wake..."
"They once questioned death, buried the darkness, and asked what purpose that dazzling light had served, and why it had vanished as fleetingly as a flower in bloom... But they never answered, nor ever will..."
"You ask who she was?"
"She was the light before dawn, a star twinkling in the distant sky, a lost fantasy of the azure divine realm. She was, "
"Oh sea, what are you talking about?"
It is an eternal question.
"Oh sky, what is your answer?"
It is eternal silence.
She disappeared into the shadows of a pale history, and no one ever knew of her again.
Lucy was accepted into the academy she had long dreamed of attending.
But when she was full of hope, cruel reality shattered her beautiful expectations.
The towering edifices of power and corruption collapsed, and great souls rebuilt them.
They should have been the guides of a new age.
Lucy saw only parasites, feeding greedily on the blood and sweat of countless people while living off their ancestors' glory. They had forgotten the lessons of the past and given themselves over to lives of extreme luxury.
Their ancestors had overthrown the oppressive class, only for their descendants to become the new nobility.
How ironic.
Beneath the high heavens, all should be equal.
So she took up the banner of her forebears and fed kindling to the wildfire's first sparks.
The smallest spark can set the whole prairie ablaze.
*
A confused noble girl betrays her own class and joins the struggle for freedom and equality.
"Rather than be a dazzling jewel for others to gaze upon, I'd rather be a stone by the roadside, paving the way forward for people."
Someone who has been controlled all their life raises the sword of rebellion and points it straight at those who rule from on high.
"Raise the banner of freedom. I will fight for equality."
When children who have relied on their parents finally become independent, they rush headlong toward a turbulent future.
History moves upward in a spiral. Nothing is good forever, and nothing is bad forever.
Yet those who refuse to let go seek to end history's endless cycles. They vainly try to drag their ideal heaven down to earth, hoping to make true peace and equality bloom forever like silk flowers.
But after he died, people continued to sing his praises for generations:
Our emperor, our eternal sovereign! May you live forever!
*
At the end of the story, Lucy will leave.
But her soul will surely remain with the one she loves.
"Lonely traveler, if you find that great soul..."
"Please bow to these souls on my behalf, and on theirs. This is the profound respect one rotten person has for them."
Content warnings:
1. The heroine is an ultimate Mary Sue. She flirts without realizing it, and everyone loves her, men and women alike. She's a universal darling, not just beloved by men! So there will be GL, though the main focus is still BG.
2. The plot takes its time, as does the romance. I don't like romances where characters fall for each other at lightning speed, unless it's love at first sight.
3. There will be no central pairing in the main story; the extra chapters will follow different routes.
Theme: Humanity's journey will lead to a sea of stars!
Author, why did you lock the aph article? 😭