The next time it happened while Angy was helping the children plant luminous seeds.
Everything froze.
Colors drained.
The Hidden Star dissolved into a swirl of fractured memories.
She saw:
A golden chain breaking
A dark sphere throbbing like a heartbeat
A pair of very familiar eyes looking at her
And a path of light, endlessly looping
Then a whisper:
"It's left to you now..."
She gasped as she snapped back.
"Miss Angy? You okay?" a kid asked.
"Mm. Just tired," she lied.
--
As time went by, the tension in the meetings was ugly.
E.E. and Alero nearly came to blows.
Falco stormed out when someone suggested creating a new Mixedblood supersoldier regiment.
Yonda refused to speak to anyone for hours after an alien representative blamed humans for the universe's downfall.
At some point someone muttered:
"Gustav should have stayed—he shouldn't have left us like this."
And the room descended into bitter, painful silence.
