I got a request today

it's one of the simpler ones

it was from a little boy with the brightest blue eyes

the sound of his tears filtered in like rain drops in my planetarium, admist the vast voices of humans wishing they could have done something different, wishing they had another chance, had more time

this little child towered above them all,

he asked to save his dog

his dog had been hit by a car days before

the child couldn't stop crying,

maybe that's why his voice rang clear.

"you're going to interfere " jesta asked me, walking into the room, cape bellowing after him, coming to stand beside me, eyes on the beeping star in the midst of a galaxy of them

"it's my job isn't it? " I asked, folding my arms and keeping my eyes on the star

"he lost one dog, he can get another, he's just a child, I'm sure there are more pressing desires "

I dragged my gaze to him

jesta was my beta, in this eternity of doing what I do, he was the only gift the universe allowed me, because even beings like I felt loneliness

we combed through the sea of vast desires together, doing the best we could and sorting through desires that we could work on, only difference being...