[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/b9GR8JL.png[/img][h2][color=lightsteelblue]CIEL, THE STARGAZER[/color][/h2][/center][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][hr][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][color=lightsteelblue]"Once again? Why is it that it has to be this way?"[/color] Ciel said to herself right after she finished the last stroke of her latest star chart. The platinum-haired girl's eyes betrayed clear concern as she stepped away from her observatory's main telescope.

Ciel took an aimless walk through her home — her gilded, starlit cage. Before she realized, she had made her way to the luxurious indoor bathing pool. The waters sparkled under the starlight that traversed the engraved crystal panels of the bathing room's external walls and ceiling. [color=lightsteelblue]"I suppose that it's only natural that my feet would bring me here when I'm distressed. I guess that, in the end, I'm really just a small goldfish. Even if I can see the whole ocean at once, trying to swim against fate's tide is impossible for someone such as myself."[/color] Ciel's voice carried a heavy self-deprecating tone, almost bleeding a profound sadness.

[color=lightsteelblue]"Even so, two at once is..."[/color]

Ciel's mind began to drift into the soothing allure of slumber not long after she dipped into the warm water, soaking herself all the way up to her chin. She should have thought that they would choose this route. What else could happen, after all?

As Ciel passed into the realm of dreams, chasing a star from a time long since gone, she was certain of one thing. Even if she had to go suffer for it later, her only choice at this moment was to try to defy the fate she gazed upon.