Stars in the same sky [lyrics]

It was coldest night since they arrived. Even since they found the girl in the snowy wreckage. She had grown so much in the last six months. He no longer had to carry her, she held her own walking through the snowy grounds. In fact, she was well head of him as they collected the firewood.

He heard her shriek. He looked around but didn't see her, but his torch revealed her tracks in front of him. He dashed alongside them. When he saw her, she was laying on her back in the fresh snow.

She sat up and pointed up. The moonless sky revealed a sparkling array of stars. Stars he only read about and heard about, but never had seen. Yet she knew all the stars. She had been amongst them.

She patted the snowy bank, offering him a place to sit down. Her voice was excited. She was talking too fast, but he knew she was talking about the stars.

She was so happy. She had lost everything, but she at least had her sky back. She grabbed his hand, and spoke spoke slowly. "Look, there is Orion." He squinted as she pointed to the three neatly aligned stars. Saipha took his hand. "There." He saw finally them.

"Tsuzumi Boshi"

She looked at him and said "Stuzumi Boshi?" He smiled and repeated himself. She corrected herself. Tsuzumi Boshi.

She learns so quickly.

He nodded. He tried his very best to pronounce her words. "OO-RI-On"

She nodded and fell back on the snow, looking at the stars. He did the same. The clouds framed the gap in sky and showed no sign of closing in. He hoped that it would last forever.

She was like water. His people were like the dry earth. Both could exist with each other, but kind of life could that ever be?


He looked at the girl. Frosty breath rose from her lips. She was softly speaking the star names. She knew them all.

He sat up and looked at her. "Sai-ee-fa". She moved her eyes away from the distant sky and up at him. He had to say it right. He looked at her tenderly. He closed his eyes and concentrated on the words he taught himself.

You.
are.
a.
star.
in.
our.
Con.
stel.
la.
tion.

Before he could even open his eyes, he felt her little arms wrap around him. He embraced her back, resting his chin on her head.

They held each other for awhile. When she pulled back, the clouds started to close the sky like a slow moving curtain.

Saipha looked at him. She put her mittened hand on his chest and spoke softly.

And you.

You are a star in my sky