Busting open the door, Bella Arte tackled her husband. This caused them to fall off the couch as she had a huge smile on her face.

"Duellum! He is awake! Our son woke up!" Her husband's ears perked as he stared at her, begging for confirmation. "It's true! Our little Lumen opened his eyes! He is alive!"

As skeptical as he was, Duellum stood up like lighting. Rushing out of the room, he ran across his house's hallways as if his life depended on it. He had to confirm it. Hours of labor and the colt had been asleep for six hours without any signs of waking up. It had to be a miracle. There was no other explanation for that. His son was alive! Duellum burst into the room before hopping over the baby's crib. Laying inside it, a colt alicorn stared at him with wide sapphire eyes. A wide smile formed on his face while looking at Duellum's harsh, and often referred to as an intimidating if not outright scary, face.

Escaping his eyes, Tears rolled down Duellum's face as the Lumen giggled while he tried to reach for Duellum's face. Dark Purple mane turning pure silver at the end of the strands. Constellations are floating in his mane, Grand Horn, South Hoof, Ursa Minor and Major, and many more. Smooth silver horn with black lines growing thicker the closer to the base. Wishing star on his flank with a wide circle around it. His covers are behaving weirdly. An unnatural presence that attracts things to it. The power of the stars. My colt is a shepherd of stars, a keeper of gravity.

Coming closer to Lumen, Duellum allowed his son to touch his muzzle. The little one did so with both his tiny little hooves before blowing a raspberry with a chuckle. Duellum, keeper of war could no longer hold the tears. Sobbing with a delighted smile on his face, Duellum allowed all of his worries wash away. He would need to change the sheets of the crib after all those tears, but it didn't matter at the time. All he needed and wanted was right there, smiling at him.

"Nobody would believe me if I told them you were crying over a baby," Duellum heard from the room's entrance as he climbed down the crib.

"Who cares about that?" Duellum shot back while glancing over his shoulder. "Our son just came back from the brink."

"I love that duality of yours, you know?" Bella said before nuzzling Duellum's neck.

"Says the mare that can turn a slaughter into a spectacle, fencing and swordplay can be considered forms of art, right?" Duellum said while resting his head on Bella's head.

"Don't you forget it," Bella replied with a snarky tone. There was a moment of silence between them as they watched the little one play with the stars floating out of his mane. "I need to make a painting of him once we can get him to model. These constellations are stupendous. Is that the wishing star behind his ear?"

"And on his flank. That ought to bring folks to him to make wishes. Hard to believe his mane was pitch black a few minutes ago, right?" Duellum said softly as he watched the colt's mane flow inside the crib. The little one had its eyes fixed on them the entire time as he kept the cutest smile on its face.

"Duellum, is, is Lumen crying?" His wife said. Duellum leaned closer to the crib, the colt's eyes were filled with tears. But, he wasn't making a sound. "Is he happy?" Duellum heard from his wife as he looked closer to his son.

"Not quite. He is feeling a lot of things, I think. Reading emotions isn't my department. If we were dueling I might have been able to sense something more. But, as far as I can tell, it looks like he has a lot in that little chest of his," Duellum replied while extending his hoof to wipe off the tears.

Duellum felt his heartstrings playing a delightful melody as the little Lumen rested his head on his hoof and closed his eyes. Things would be so different from that point on, Duellum was certain of that. Gently removing his hoof, Duellum and Bella walked away from the crib before closing the door to the room.

"Did you make a wish?" Bella asked while they trotted down the corridor. "I know I did. The wishing star only appears once a year."

Quietly walking by his wife's side, Duellum placed his wing over her, bringing her closer. Before answering, he looked over his shoulder at the door where his son slept peacefully. "I have nothing left to wish for. I have everything," Duellum replied softly as he nuzzled his wife.

"Gentle beast. It cares not for titles or creed. Aligned only to those he wishes to protect and keep," Bella mumbled back as they continued down the hall.

"Fierce Beauty. Burning flame hidden beneath delicate sheets. Tamer of beasts, and bringer of beauty," Duellum said with his best effort to match his wife's words.

"That's a B plus for effort," Bella replied with a chuckle.

My name is Lumen Astrum. I was alive once in the past. I mean as, before this life, that is.

I know that now.

Here, on my fourth birthday, my father received a gift meant for me. Wrapped inside it, laid this book. Father told me that the one that gave me this was none other than Sors, Faust's husband. There was a letter attached to this book. It basically explained that, that this book would become a part of me. Moreover, it will keep a record of my life until I die. The book is now stored within my mane.

Father read this book before me. He knows that, that I'm not his son. But, he didn't say a word about it. He handed me the book with some of the pages filled in by him before walking away. And from what I can tell, either Faust or Sors filled in the ones before that. I, I've never seen either of their penmanship, therefore, I can't tell them apart.

I can't blame him for walking away like that. He's been living a lie for four years. And I can't blame Sors for not delivering the book to me when he came either. I can't help but feel sorrow at the response, and the truth around my birth.

I just hope we can be friends again, father.

Sorry, father. I wish the stars would align so that you could have your son back. I swear, I never wished to rob you of your son, of your family. I'm sorry for mother as well, for I have also deceived her apparently. I know that neither of you will ever read this. But, but I hope with all my heart that we can stay together.

Like we always been.

But I'm not your wishing star anymore, am I?

I can't remember why I cried quietly at my birth. I can't recall from where I know so much about things that none of us are close to understanding. And based on the entries on this, I never will. Because they are all the luggage that made it through with me. Now, well, we know why I never acted my age.

But, at the very least, I can say with certainty that I loved both of you with all my heart. Regardless of who I am. You two were, ARE my family.

And I will NEVER forget you.

The alarms are blaring outside. A storm must be on its way. Too many of them have been happening as of late.

Author's Note

Ok! Second chapter!

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