Glimmer of a Star

The city sprawled below like a patchwork quilt, neon signs blinking in rhythm with the steady pulse of the night. Starman soared through the sky, his body heavy with the weight of everything he had faced. The guilt, the regret, it clung to him like a second skin, impossible to shake off.

In his ear, Jace’s voice cut through the silence, a steady presence in the chaos of his thoughts.

“Let me show you something.”

Starman didn’t respond. His gaze was fixed ahead, but he felt the pull of Jace’s words. He didn’t know what the other man wanted to show him, he wasn’t sure he even cared. He just wanted the night to end, to disappear into the dark and leave everything behind.

But he didn’t fight it. Not this time.

They descended slowly, past towering skyscrapers, through clouds that broke apart like shattered glass. The streets of the city stretched wide beneath them, bustling with the life that seemed so foreign to him now.