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The book closed and Lewis still couldn't believe his eyes. The cover of the book was as titled: The Girl who Fell Through the World. He had actually managed to have his manuscript published. It was a strange feeling, actually seeing your work printed as a book. He probably shouldn't have been surprised but it was still a surreal feeling. At first, he had been worried that the version he wrote wasn't the same as the one he had heard. In the end, he simply chose to write the story as he wanted it to be. It would have been much easier that way.
Lewis leaned back on his chair. After everything in the Ever After, he had changed. Once, he may have been respected around his home. Never really going out on any fanciful adventures or journeys. After that though? Lewis knew he was never going to be the same after that. His name will fade away of course, the name of the author wasn't his but rather of his sister. He even removed himself from it just to give his sister the limelight; she deserved it after what she did for him.
His eyes drifted to the discarded and rejected drafts from the corner of the room. He didn't have much time to clean up ever since he had moved away from the towns and cities, preferring to live somewhere in the woods. Was it dangerous considering what Remnant is? Probably, but nothing had scared him now after that. He was certain that he could not be filled with the same wonder as he had from his time in the Ever After.
Picking up the discarded drafts, Lewis fed them to the fire. He then returned to his soft chair and relaxed. His eyes had begun to become heavy. His head dipped down as he slept. His dreams have been filled mostly with the Ever After ever since. Nothing could possibly top that wonder.
The loudest noise woke him up. If it wasn't the explosion, then it was the intense quaking of the ground that followed immediately after that did. Hung portraits fell and books fell from the shelves. Lewis had panicked a little when he had to grab the nearest bucket of water to put out the stray embers that landed on the carpet. Something had enough momentum that the force was felt on the side of his house.
"What was that?" he asked. He approached the window. About that wonder he thought he could never have, he was proven wrong.
Taking a lit candle with him, Lewis went of his home and approached the sudden object that fell near to his home. It was a few ways off but there was no mistaking the closeness it had to his home. Had it been any closer, then Lewis' home might have burned just as the surrounding flora had been deleted. There was an object at the center of the crater, made of metal.
Lewis approached it with the same curiosity that he had from his time in the Ever After. Was that what this was? Some remains of the Ever After? It didn't look like it. It looked like some strange plate with three broken sticks attached to it. The size of it was too big for it to be a dinning plate though but that was the closest shape that Lewis could describe it. In fact, much of it had been charred that it was a safe assumption to say that most of it must have been lost.
There was still some heat coming from it and there was some sort of circular shape below the plate thing. When it had cooled enough, Lewis approached closer. Cautious but the thing hadn't moved yet. Was it even alive? That must have been some journey. Did it come from above? Was this a star?
When Lewis touched the object, he vanished, never to be seen anywhere on Remnant again.
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There was a search party for the author of the Girl who Fell Through the World. When witnesses from a nearby settlement had testified of seeing a star fall down on Remnant and near the author's home, they had to search for him and maybe discover what the star that fell looked like.
However, none of the townsfolk could find any semblance of the author nor the star. All they found was a plate of metal that had a strange engraving on it. None of them could understand what was said and being people who thought nothing much of it, left the plate behind to be lost.
To anyone out there, if you happen to locate it, perhaps you could make sense of that strange engraving that the people of Remnant could not understand. The markings looked something like this:
Voyager