[i]As Sol grabbed my hand my face split into a magnificent smile and happily, I said, "I knew you would make the right choice." My tone growing more serious, I added "I don't know what may happen once we go back, and its scary jumping the gap. But if we stay focused, I know we can make it." 

Taking a deep breath we focused our energies together, stars and sunlight resonating together in harmony as we ascended. 
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I awoke to darkness and cold, yet it was somehow comforting. I moved my consciousness around and found lights in the darkness, familiar but also completely new. I tried to move but found my body gone, or did I never have a body? What was a body? These questions swam amongst my mind until my conscienceless connected with a soft, pink, and fleshy creature. It was intriguing, it seemed to be in great pain however. It was draped over some type of soft animal skin, surrounded by others and with a large bulge near its middle. Intrigued I look closer and found that one in particular was giving the creature comfort, it was taller, more angular than the curves of the smaller creature. With a final agonizing screech fallowed by a sigh of relief an ugly little ball of screams and slim came out of the curved creature. As I continued to look I saw that the curved one began to leak from its face, however that didn't register as much as the emotions that radiated from the pair. 

It was hard to pinpoint, a word that had no meaning to me but also had the greatest came to my mind... love. I didn't know what it meant but I felt a tugging at my being that I was close, to what I didn't know. I most likely would have stared forever if a large creature hadn't came over. It was large, easily towering over the others by a large margin, and its color was a dull gray, instead of a white that I felt it should have been. What stuck me as the most odd was that it was missing an arm, the stump jagged like a broken rock. Vines and leaves cascaded down its arm and water filled gourds that grew along them, the new creature even scared the group of animals that seemed intent on taking the lives of the freshly born life. This picture filled me with joy, but I didn't understand why until they all looked up. Seeing their attention go elsewhere I too looked upwards and my breath was taken away. Up in the sky was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Everything above them was covered in sparkles of color, both big and small. At that moment everything became clear, I am Manus... and I was home again. 

With a bass note that rumbled the grounds and shook the heavens, I pulled my form together and rose from my watery tomb. As I breached the water I let out a yawn that too shook the earth. For how long I was asleep I wouldn't know, but it was already to long. Seeing the awe of my children upon me it was time I gave them one, final gift. Focusing this new burst of energy I made a compact ball of pure starlight, it wasn't big or as impressive as my other stars. Yet this one was special, lifting it higher to the sky, I let it float for several seconds before detonating it, creating the base for my gift. The clouds of star dust collected together and formed the ground of what I would call heaven. It has been far too long since me and my siblings worked together on something, now was as good a time as ever.[/i]