"There's ice here, but it's so warm, I'll bet there's water here too." The two decided to stay on the comet for a while. "Pretty good, huh? Finding Star Bits is my specialty!" said Luma, beaming. Peering down at the icy ground where Luma was pointing, the girl suddenly noticed clusters of Star Bits encased in the ice. Exhausted, the little girl sat down with a flop, utterly unable to take another step. They looked high and low, but Luma's mother was nowhere to be found. The pair descended on the comet and found that it was made of ice. The little girl shook the sleeping Luma awake and shouted excitedly, "We HAVE to get to that comet!" Thinking it was the morning sun, the girl peered through the window, only to find a turquoise blue comet shimmering at her. The Star Bits tasted like honey.Ī beam of light pierced through the ship's window. They almost fell out a few times, but they kept on collecting. Leaning far out of the ship, the pair began to collect Star Bits with the girl's net. Luma continued to laugh, and the girl couldn't help but join in. "Want some?" The little girl couldn't stay mad after hearing this. "As long as I have Star Bits, I'll be fine," said Luma. "I forgot to bring water!" At this, Luma burst into gales of laughter, and the girl began to pout. "If I had known it was going to take this long, I would have packed more jam," said the little girl, above the rumble of her belly.īefore they left, she had packed all the essentials: telescope, butterfly net, stuffed bunny, bread, milk, jam, and apricot-flavored tea, but. Instead, asteroids extended for as far as the eye could see. And this is how the search for the celestial mother began.ĭays passed with no sight of the comet, or even a single planet. The girl and Luma fixed up the rusty spaceship, and then the two set sail into the starry sky.
"Why don't we go out there and find your mother ourselves?" Finally, the little girl sighed and said to Luma, "If we stay here looking much longer, I'll be an old lady soon." But then she had an idea. Hours turned into days and then years, but still the sky revealed nothing. She looked and looked, but she saw nothing. I'll wait with you," the little girl promised Luma.Īt nightfall, the little girl borrowed her father's telescope and peered into the sky. She's coming for me on a comet!" said the star child, who had been waiting day and night. "What's your name? Are you lost?" the girl asked the star child. One day, this girl spotted a rusted spaceship holding a small star child. Our story begins a very, very long time ago with a young girl.