-db- Kanata No Astra -

She adjusted her helmet, the click of the visor deafening in the perfect silence. Breathe, she told herself. One… two… three.

It had been eight days since they’d escaped the crumbling remains of the old military base. Eight days since Funicia had cried for a mother who wasn’t coming. Eight days since Kanata had grinned that reckless, impossible grin and said, “We’re going home. Together.” -DB- Kanata no Astra

“We won’t.” He kicked off a loose panel and drifted closer, spinning lazily. “Because you’re doing the math.” She adjusted her helmet, the click of the

She looked at his faceplate. Behind the reflective glare, she could see the shape of his jaw, the scar near his eyebrow he’d gotten from the worm-beast on the forest planet. He was not the same boy who had boarded the Astra five weeks ago. None of them were. It had been eight days since they’d escaped

And that, Aries realized, was the only north star they had ever needed.