Stars That Wanted to Go Home

Norn dreamt that her body was falling apart into atoms. It was not, however, a dramatic process bearing the hallmarks of a nightmare. There was something beautiful in that falling apart – each smallest particle of Norn called to mind a distant star in the sky, as if all of Norn were built of stars that wanted to find their way home.

Norn, however, did not want to fall apart. Not yet. So Norn walked about in a steel cage, built of slender threads that were there to hold her together.

Norn did not pick that dream apart. She decided it would be better that way.