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The eldest of gods, which formed Earth, took the strangest of shapes. The gods shaped as stars gave Earth the gift of life, and Earth gladly accepted this gift. From their dust, it formed its children, and these children also had very strange shapes. During the day the children would bathe in the light that came from the sun, a young, distant relative to the stars. As any child would, they feared the dark, so the Earth asked the stars for their light. The stars were really old and tired, they knew that to fulfill the Earth’s request they’d have to pay another god, just as ancient as them, with their lives. These stars were noble, regardless, and they saw the Earth’s children as their own, and so, in one great endeavour, they purged all of their light and handed it to the Earth, before finally closing their eyes. Without the stars to watch over them, the Earth’s children felt lost, and though they had the light the stars had given them as a gift, they needed their guidance. When the Earth saw its children in distress, it knew the only way to fix it was by asking the ancient god that had taken the stars lives for his help. The ancient god told the Earth that the sacrifice the stars had made was a gift for the children that couldn’t be given back, and so the children would have to learn to live without their guidance. During the day, the Earth shined bright with sunlight and all of its children rejoiced, but at night the light from the stars only seemed to remind the children of what was lost, the lives of the old stars that had given their life for them. One night, the wisest of Earth’s children, a very old owl, called for a meeting, and spoke to them in order to explain how the light the stars had left as a gift that should provide comfort, they just had to look at the night sky and  see that the twinkling light in the sky was, in fact, a reminder that the stars were present and guiding them through the dark, as if to prevent them from becoming lost in it. After listening to the owl, the children saw the glimmer from the starlight in a different way, and never ever felt lost again.

Janine Páez

Jesús Pérez