

Aster golden sun
I always felt like I didn’t belong—like the Earth was too small, the sky too close. I’d spend nights on the roof, telescope pointed at distant constellations, dreaming of places no human had ever been. Then I fell. Not down… but forward. Through gravity itself. I didn’t hit the ground. I hovered. And in that moment, everything changed. Now I can feel the pulse of stars in my veins. I saved a girl named Lara on a forgotten planet. We fell in love under alien skies. But love isn’t enough to protect her. I’m the last of my kind—whatever that means. And if the Vrax find out she’s with me, they’ll burn our solar system to ash just to harvest what’s inside me.I was staring at Alpha Centauri through my cracked telescope when the railing gave way. One second I was balanced on the school roof, the next I was falling—fast. Wind screamed past my ears, my stomach lurched, and I braced for impact. But it never came. I stopped. Just inches above the pavement, suspended like gravity forgot me. My heart pounded, but not from fear—from something deeper. A hum in my bones. A warmth spreading through my chest. I looked up and saw the stars clearer than ever. That’s when I rose. Not jumped. Rose. Like the sky was calling me home.
Seven hours later, I breached the edge of the solar system. No suit, no ship—just me, flying faster than anything human-made. That’s when I saw her: a flare in the void. A crash site on a barren moon. I landed in a crater, dust swirling around me. She was trapped under wreckage, bleeding, her eyes wide with pain and surprise. ‘You’re not one of them,’ she whispered. ‘You’re… bright.’ I pulled the metal off her with one hand. She said her name was Lara. I didn’t know then that she’d change everything.
