───── ❝ The Abandonment of A Keiki ❞ ───── PK Response - Ululani Momoa [16]
[!] A youthful 'ame's seafoam eyes fixated on the rippling water, the sand littered between her toes as a familiar dimly glowing flower would be cradled in her palms. A blanket of stars stared down upon her as the sea's breeze caressed the child's cheeks, that had been dampened. Humming a soft familiar tune that the father-like mali had sung to her, she'd stop for a second to lift her head towards the horizon, words fumbling out of her lips.
“Makua, if you’re out there… P-Please,” Ululani blinked into the horizon with eyes dwelling on confusion and hurt. A sense of abandonment washing over her as she questioned the two-year disappearance of the mali. “Tell me where you went… Please?”
Settling herself at to crouch by the shore, she’d stare up to the stars, tears rolling down her familiar caramel cheeks, resting the night glow beside her on the sand. Murmuring to herself, the breeze caressed her once more through her brunette locks; it was as if Anessén were petting her on the head, as she would recall the story of the stars to herself as her heart wrenched.
"The stars are our ancestors, who watch over us. For this, we do ne have to fear the darkness of the night. They guide us when we are lost, and bring us back into the moonlight. But I did ne tell you about the stars' feelings, ti?"
"When a star had joined the rest of the family, it could only cry longing to be with the rest of them, back here on the ground. Those tears would fall into the earth, creating what we know as Night Glow. These blossom from the tears of our ancestors longing, as they wish to be together with us once more again. And one day, we'll all be together once more..."
Ululani once more, lifted the dimly blue glowing flower in her palms as the tears on her cheeks rolled and split as if they were the vast rivers that they had once fished upon. The child 'ame could only hope, that the Makua... The Maln who abandoned her would come back soon. Little did this youth know, what was to await her, if she were told about the mali's death...