and nourished long before I had the ability to live. How else? Without his touch, his light, my essence would not have gained consciousness, and my sphere would not have felt the Cosmos…
Do you hear me, my star? Tell me, do I have a name similar to what I called you?! My Fire Star is my Sun, you touched me, and for the first time I was able to breathe in the coolness of flickering lights, trace your creation of the world…
When it happened, there was no one like me and the Sun. But there were other incarnations nearby. Countless multitudes of solitary particles – mindless substances – in a chaotic stream sought shelter in the boundless harmony of the Fiery Star. They united in pleiades and rushed about in the arms of the Sun’s light, just as I was in the rays of its warmth. It happened that larger particles ignited for a moment with a red flame, as if they were beckoning with radiance the smaller forms of natures. Those, in turn, with an unknown force soared to the bewitching glows. Circling in the heat of their orbits, they slowly approached the source of attraction, and when they collided, something mysterious and chilling happened! Consuming the smallest essence, the substances spewed out flames, similar to the ardor of my Sun, and grew into red-hot elementals – another kind of manifestation. Elementals blazed, attracted and absorbed other sophisticated particles, and the consequences of their mergers again became substances.
The rebirths of forms were reversed in an endless circle… I looked at this reality with bated breath. Can a similar stream of perfection still occur in the Universe, incomparable to anything?! Possibly… The countless number of luminaries, so distant and inaccessible, going beyond the limits of the concept of boundaries, around me, my Star and these phenomena, only allowed me to imagine similar worlds.
Sometimes, after a flash of flame, the substances partly rejected the entities and pushed them back in the form of hard and cold comets. This reality seemed to take away a piece of one essence from another, leaving instead of it only an unnecessary residue. The absorbing phenomenon became more perfect, and the rejected comets moved away with incredible swiftness, bequeathing behind them clots of cosmic dust.
Keeping the warmth of the Fire Star, my body was gaining strength every moment. My content was reborn, turning into something more than the original essence. Then I felt how other forms began to reach out to me. Like comets flying nearby rushed towards my flesh, leaving the universe on their prepared path. Other entities emerged from their unstable orbits and strove for my reality. At first I was afraid. I was afraid that they would absorb me, as substances absorb other entities, or destroy my still fragile body. I wanted to free myself from my stay and… rush towards the Sun. But I couldn’t. The pull of my Star kept me from moving. And when the first inside touched me, instead of being lost and oppressed, I felt a familiar warmth. The same warmth that I felt before, as if the Sunlight touched my camp for the first time, freeing my mind from chaos and emptiness! With trepidation, I accepted the previously alien manifestation, allowing it to dissolve in the streams of my prana. The essence gave itself to me without a trace, filling me with a new feeling. I desired!
It happened over and over again! Substances, comets and elementals rushed towards me, and I absorbed them and was imbued with energy. My saturation knew no bounds!
The warmth of the Fiery Star in my body over time enveloped the foundations of the absorbed manifestations, and their shell mixed with mine and grew into an inhomogeneous sphere. I became perfect!
Soon, incarnations similar to me began to take off around me, but their contents were not quite similar to mine. Cold and hard, empty and transparent, they did not retain the warmth of the Fiery Star, and perhaps that is why their reality did not acquire meaning. Absorbing essences in the district, the bodies of the like became soulless planets. Those that were closer to the Sun took only the rest of the natures, spraying the shell into the endless space. Comets of other elementals constantly crashed against their warehouses, leaving giant scars on their folded camps. Others, on the contrary, absorbed everything except the basics. Inflated to exorbitant sizes, the planets made me worry about their sustainable existence.
I tried to talk to them, but they did not hear me, just as my Sun did not hear me… Then I could not understand what was the meaning of my loneliness. Oh, how I longed to see what was going on outside of Firestar Realm! Go out of your mind beyond its borders. To know the Cosmos of other luminaries. Maybe there, in other worlds, there are lives similar to me, capable of listening to me, accepting my existence, telling me the plan of the Universe and leading me to Its origins along the Star Way?
A small core – a tiny essence, like my image on the first day of realizing reality, lost in the arm of the Sun among the inanimate elementals – appeared out of nowhere. It slowly moved towards my habitat, gradually attracting other entities to itself, like a second Self, born long before its appearance. The essence merged with other entities, and with the same desirable feeling inherent in me, dissolved their cosmic flesh. Who are you? A living planet – a gift from the Fire Star or the Universe, born to brighten up my solitude?!
I asked her and received meek outbursts in response. Warm streams of prana excitedly touched my shell. With all the fibers of the absorbed reality, I felt her mutual «Yes». Is she talking to me? Does she really feel the course of my thoughts, the flow of my essence?
My satellite stopped very close. In the world of the Sun, among silent planets, cold comets and gloomy asteroids, he was beautiful and unique! Its fiery core, wrapped in absorbed energy, was like a Star Flower. With every moment, the sphere of cosmic petals of its mixed manifestations blossomed and shimmered with the light of the Universe. The abundance of vital matter of the satellite with constant impulses made me feel the Cosmos again and again! My lover, as if playing with me, absorbed the particles in the area and with each merger with them sent incomparable rays of illumination to my body. I could not restrain my attraction and reciprocated his presence near. My desired planet, my new understanding of the world awakened in me an extraordinary feeling, without which it was impossible to continue my existence!
Since then, I have not been alone. He was with me – my faithful companion! We endlessly danced around ourselves, one of one and the Sun, beating particles of its warmth into our foundations. Reflecting the rays of the Fiery Star, we took turns warming the sides of our forms that were inaccessible to it. We absorbed the remnants of mindless entities and replenished our bodies with their energy. Sometimes our attraction clung to the same reality, and we pulled it to each other. Competing with him in perseverance and gravity, sometimes I conceded essence to him. My blissful source, my vital inspirer of accomplishments, as it turned out later, needed substances more than I did, and his Cosmic touch after that was stronger than any light!
Constantly burning on the scorching rays, the lifeless planets nearby did not stop repeating the meaningless ritual of being around the Sun. The persistent planids healed their former scars long ago, while the transparent giants exhausted the nearest phenomena and remained frozen on the borders of the creation of the Fiery Star.
The eternal time of the Universe continued to surf the infinity of the worlds. Not feeling its duration, limits and variability in space, my satellite and I were transformed again and again! We gradually wrapped the saved warmth of the Fiery Star in solid matter, and our shells became more receptive to other forms. Sometimes stray comets hit them. Before merging with the elementals of the foundations, they were fairly overheated from elemental resistances. Penetrating the spheres, the comets turned into soft structures by the moment of a complete stop and smoothly connected with our bodies. So we ate. Thus, with time passed our careless constancy. Rotating in the streams of heat of mutual energy, we did not notice how almost all non-intelligent particles around disappeared. Once again, sparking with the force of gravity in the game «Absorbers of Substances», I saw how my blessed one moved. Its orbit again rushed to my location. I felt it and could not agree with the fate of the universe! My satellite, having released the invisible shackles and overflowing with prana flows, was confidently approaching. I tried to stop him, talked