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Started Feb 07 by @korixkj

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"Did the translator fail?" Allyanna asked, tilting her head. " The patterns cast into the sky to be among the stars. How to they mean resilience?" She asked again. "It is just a pattern."

She gave a soft chuckle. "No I understood you… They each mean different things.. what do you mean patterns?"

Allyanna's eyes widened. "They all mean different things? But they're just patterns!"
Allyanna tilted her head again. "The… Patterns? The lights that make shapes? That are up in the sky?"

"Yeah.." she murmured. "They're stars, aren't they?" She asked, now confused. Her whole life she'd believed they were stars, cosmic patterns meant to write destinies for her species. All of humanity did..

"I mean, kind of? I guess? They're similar, I guess. Lights cast up with the stars. I've never fully understood why, but I've been told it makes more sense if you've done it."
Allyanna said, pulling one of the floating screens over to her.

She raised an eyebrow, watching. "If you've done it?.." She sat back up, pained but far too intrigued to care

Allyanna frowned at Al. "You should stay down, let yourself heal." She scolded. "And no, I haven't done it."

She furrowed her eyebrows. She was super confused. "No. What do you even mean?" The alien was being super vague with the faith-shattering revelation, and so casual, as if it was common knowledge

Allyanna looked at the human curiously. "Are you sure the translator is working? I'm pretty sure I've been very clear. I haven't cast a pattern among the stars. I don't really understand why so many have, but they say it makes more sense once you have."

Al sat there quietly for a moment. "…My people have always believed they were stars.. that they meant something…." she murmured. Her entire world view had just been so casually shattered, and she didn't know what to do

Allyanna looked worried. "Is something wrong? They might mean something! Like I said, I don't fully understand the practice. And a lot of the stars are natural, they just don't make patterns like that." Allyanna seemed to recognize that she said something wrong, but didn't know what.

"The patterns have always meant something.." she murmured. "My entire race has believed in them for centuries.." She simply looked down, examining her hands.

Allyanna seemed to panic. "I'm sorry! I did something wrong, didn't I? I always do things like this! I'm so sorry!"

She looked up with a gentle smile. "You didn't do anything.." She hummed. "You saved my life. Do you have a mirror?" she asked

Allyanna furrowed her brow. "Maybe? Not s small one though. Why? I can take a capture of you if you'd like."

She nodded "Yes please.. I wanna look at it" she replied, touching her tattoo lightly.

Allyanna moved around several of the objects suspended in the air around her, before pulling up something that looked almost like a camera from earth, with a couple differences. "Alright, stay still so it dosent blur…"

She did so, sitting as still as she could while observing the camera-looking object

Allyanna adjusted some things on the screen before pressing a button on the side of the device. "Alright, give me a second to get that pulled up."
She brought over the screen that had shown the ship wreckage before, clicking around before turning it to show Al. "Here you are. You look a lot better than you did when I found you! Lucky I found you quickly, more things could have scarred if I found you later."

She nodded, murmuring a small thank you as she examined her tattoo. "Do you know anyone who has made a pattern?" she asked softly

Allyanna nodded. "I know a lot of people who have, but we are not really friends… I could ask them if they want to talk to you?" She said, leaning against a wall. She looked exhausted.

She paused and looked the girl over a moment. "I'd appreciate it, but you don't have to do that right now. You look like you could also use some rest" She answered, offering a soft smile

Allyanna nodded. "I could, but you have to promise not to touch anything first. Some of these things are fragile, and as far as I can tell, you do not have many of these things on your planet." She said, seriously. She had started putting things down on surfaces or hooks as they stopped floating when she grabbed them. "If you need anything, you can call. I am a light sleeper. When I awake, I will try to contact someone who has casted."

She nodded. "Won't touch nothin" she replied. "I'll call if i need somethin, but I'll probably also be sleeping" She said, lying back down and shifting a bit

Allyanna nodded, finished putting things away, and left the room. In her own bedroom, she collapsed on her bed and quicky fell asleep.

Al looked around as she lay there. She'd promised not to touch anything, but what about looking? Surely it wouldn't be a problem if she perused the items in the room, provided she make good on her promise, right?

Around the room several screens were attached to the wall, set carefully on tables, and set up on stands. With Allyanna asleep, the things she had been floating around herself could no longer float, so she had secured them back into their places. Most had been turned off, though several monetering machines were still on, they were quieter that machines on earth. The faintest sound of beeping seemed to come from one of the machines, but Al would have to strain to hear it. It didn't seem like looking around would mess with anything, but it might raise vitals again, which would probably alert the sleeping alien.

She sat, noting the monitors and some other items in the room. She simply looked around, focusing on a poster with a constellation across the room

The constellation was the first that had ever been casted, many years ago. It was of Taurus, the bull. There were words on it as well, but it was in an alien language that Al wouldn't be able to read. Allyanna had hung another paper up nearby, blank except for some sketches she had done, an unfamiliar constellation that she had been planning out. She wanted to, eventually, cast one herself, it seemed.

Al took note of what looked like Allyanna's blueprints, before turning her attention back to the poster. She touched the tattoo on her face once more. Taurus..