The Legend of Two Becoming One
Summary
I sat down to begin my work, but where would I start? It's such a big project after all. Bigger than anything I've ever attempted before. Summarizing the legend of the epic love story of two stars? How does one even conceive of such a thing, let alone write it? Everyone says you're supposed to start with an outline, but I'm a total pantser! I couldn't write an outline if my life depended on it. And this is a love story, a thing of the heart not the mind. How could anyone possibly carve up such a precious thing into anything as cold and precise as an outline? That would be positively heartless. Wait a minute! That's it! I don't need an outline. I need a map, a map made of heartbeats. But how does one construct such a thing? I wondered. Perhaps you start with two hearts beating separately, neither one knowing that the other exists yet, but each longing for something they can't quite put their finger on. Then one day those two separate hearts cross paths. There's a feeling of recognition and the two hearts begin to beat as one. Their whole universe is filled with song, but it doesn't last because the others don't find their heart song pleasant at all. The two hearts are torn apart, each going their separate ways but never forgetting the time when they beat as one. Then, a long, long time later, those two separate hearts cross paths again, and they begin to beat as one once more. This time they vow not to let anything or anyone ever separate them again, so the two hearts become one fused together until the end of time and beyond, lighting up the night sky with the eternal flame of their love.
Cultural Reception
Never having developed a written version of their language, the history of the Bane'ile has been passed down from generation to generation in the form of songs. This particular legend of two becoming one has continued to be sung from long ago, before the destruction of the Bane'ile home world, until the present day, and is widely known throughout Kantostara. It has contributed greatly to the perception of the Bane'ile as being somehow larger than life and possessing certain mystical qualities in addition to knowledge of ancient esoteric wisdom. Those with a more romantic nature are enchanted by the story of star-crossed lovers joined together for eternity, not to mention the mysterious godlike Singers of Songs and the heroic flyer destined to save the entire galaxy. However, those with ties to worlds that once considered the Bane'ile to be rivals, as well as anyone with a less romantic temperament, generally consider the legend to be a ridiculously poetic way to describe the collision of two binary stars that resulted in the destruction of the Bane'ile home world and sent its people wandering throughout the galaxy.
Date of Setting
In a time before time began
Telling / Prose
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