1. Chapter 1 (1/2)

title: starscharacters: asuka, hane kuriboh||pair: n/achapters: 1-1||words: 647genre: general||rated: kchallenges: diversity writing: gx canon: b41, 1st meetingtimeline: between episodes 120 & 121, the tail end of their first night/beginning of their second day in sand world.summary: asuka goes out to watch the desert night. someone comes to guide her back.

i don't recognize those stars.

asuka stared up at the scattered points of light, some tiny part of her hoping that she could locate something familiar. she knew better, really, but she looked anyway. even if they were in another world, the sight of familiar stars could be comforting.

but all that the sky held that she recognized was a moon. it wasn't even the moon of their world: the shadows and lights of it fell differently. instead of the shape of a rabbit or a man or anything else from any legend she'd ever read, she saw…

is that supposed to be a dragon? a dragon in the moon?

she shook her head and tried to figure out what other constellations there might be. had anyone in this world ever given them names? what else could be here aside from harpie ladies? they had to be intelligent. had they named the stars?

i won't know. we won't be here that long. that was something else she had to hold close to herself and believe.

she

eathed in the quiet desert air, wondering when the suns would come back up. the sooner they could do something, the better. but everyone around here was either on guard or asleep.

i should get back to everyone else. asuka didn't move, though.

a faint trill caught her attention and she looked up, seeing

own hair and white feathers. no, it wasn't hair: fur.

own fur.

hane kuriboh.

she'd seen juudai play the card many times since their first year, but she'd never actually seen it until now. holograms weren't the same as spirits. until now she'd never seen a spirit.

now hane kuriboh hovered in front of her, staring at her with large eyes that she thought asked a question. she wasn't sure of what the question was, so she made up one. what would she ask if she were a fluffy puffball?