She had always felt that something was wrong with her.
Not wrong in the sense of being flawed.
Wrong in the sense of not belonging.
As if her existence were misplaced.
As if her life were a pause… and not the beginning.
There were small details. Things no one else noticed.
The way she looked at the sky, as if she were waiting for something.
Her strange ease with understanding complex things, as if her mind remembered before it learned.
And those dreams…
Always the same.
A different sky.
Darker. Deeper. Filled with stars that did not exist on Earth.
And a voice.
She never understood what it was saying, but it always spoke to her as if it knew her.
As if it had been waiting for her for a very long time.
When she woke, her heart would race. Not from fear.
From longing.
Longing for a place she had never visited.
Or so she believed.
That night, as she stared at the star that shone brighter than all the rest, she felt something new.
A faint ache in her chest.
It wasn't physical.
It was something deeper.
As if something inside her were trying to awaken.
As if something inside her wanted to remember.
Without knowing it…
she did not belong to Earth.
She had been sent.
She had been chosen.
And soon, she would discover everything.
-AmongStars