In Twilight Vale, the shadows softly rise,
Mountains pierce the sky,
and silence fills the skies.
Zely stands alone on stone worn thin by time—
Star Keeper bound by oath,
his heart in silent rhyme.
The heavens dim… a light begins to fade.
Alheri, Hope’s own flame, is losing shade.
He scans the frozen canvas of the night,
Sees Alheri dimmed by unseen blight.
The telescope trembles in his trembling hand—
Fear like frost across this sacred land.
With Noctis at his side—a shadow, wise and deep—
He walks where ancient forests weep and sleep.
Through whispers in the wind,
beneath a starless dome,
He seeks the sages, far from home.
The withered star… it aches inside my chest.
Not lost in sky—but in the grief I’ve pressed.
No hand can heal what I refuse to show:
My breath is her light—I must let it glow.
The shadow I fight is the one I hold.
To save her fire, I must grow bold.
Shine, fragile hope—awaken what is true.
If I am dark… then light will fade from you.
The sages spoke in voices soft and old:
“The star you mourn is your own soul, untold.
Your hidden sorrow, dreams you cast aside,
Became the storm that dimmed her sacred tide.
The weight you bore was never hers to keep—
It was your silence that made the heavens weep.”
He turned from mountain peaks, no longer blind—
To find the light in simple things, left behind.
The withered star… now mirrors all my skin.
Not space, but sorrow dims the light within.
The truth is clear, the path is real:
My breath is her light—my heart, her wheel.
I traded tears for laughter, fear for grace,
Found dawn in children’s eyes, in time, in space.
Shine, fragile hope—rekindle what was torn.
I am the light… and now I’m not alone.
In birdsong at first light,
in stories by the flame,
In quiet moments, love reclaimed his name.
The shadow thinned—it never ruled his core.
Each sunrise now is something more.
No longer just a keeper… now a flame.
The journey ends—but light remains.
The withered star… now burns inside my soul!
No fear can quench it—only make it whole.
I found the beauty I had turned away:
My breath is her light—I live it every day.
The shadow I fought? I let it go.
To save her fire, I learned to grow.
Shine, radiant heart—the vow is kept.
The star is whole… and never slept.
Oh, Alheri… you glow at last.
My pulse, your light—forever cast.
No more twilight.
Only dawn.
Shine with me…
Forever on.