1 - Rosalina - Hope

Life seems horrible today.  When everyday you are a mother to a million stars, life could seem in the dumps at times.  Like now.

Every star I believe is asleep.  This means I can concentrate, for once.  Tonight was the time to mourn.  My mother died this very day.

Almost no one ever knew if my mother actually died or not.  My father and I still had hope though.  If I hadn't seen her corpse myself, I would've believed that she was just trying to come back.  But no one has ever come back from death.

I stand up to go to my room.  There is where I can mourn without anyone hearing a pin drop from my room.

Crying seems pointless now.  I have wasted all of my tears crying for thousands of millennium now.  Even that seems pointless and depressing.  I just wished I had another human to talk to.

I have started to believe that I was hearing things.  A whisper aroused me into suspicion.

"Rosalina?" the whisper asked.  I still wasn't sure if it was real.

"Who's there?" I asked gently but also forcefully.

"You seem sad." the whisper said.

I had never thought I could actually lose my sanity.  My sanity is the only thing that has kept me alive for all of these centuries.  My sanity is the only thing that I can say I have.  And now it is being taken away from me.  So I can't help but to sob.

The lights flicker on.  A dark brownish figure of a star is shown before me.  And I already know who it is.  So I jump up out of bed immediately and greet him with a hug.

"Polari." I cried out happily.

"Don't cry, Rosalina." Polari pleaded.

Polari had been away for five years, making sure that no trouble would arose the Comet Observatory.  Sadly, the enemy has come.  And the stars are in great trouble.

"We have hope." he said.  "When everything is lost, we will still have hope."

"We can't lose everything." I told him.

"I sense dark forces, Rosalina." he spoke seriously.  "Everything might be lost.  The Observatory, the stars, me.  You might just be our only hope."