[quote=@The Odeoron]
[@Legend Begins]

[color=f7941d][h3]Five Years Later...[/h3][/color]


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[color=9e0b0f][i]*The soft hum of the spacecraft's engines created a sense of calm as Akella and I are drifting through the void of space. Five years of searching had passed, at least this universe's 5 years, and yet the cosmos, with all its wonders, remained vast and quiet. The thousands of planets of the many systems spun lazily in the distance, suns flickered in the periphery, and nebulae stretched like cosmic oceans, yet no sign of Lumyell Morningstar had surfaced.

My hand hovered over the ship's console, my fingers lightly brushing the glowing controls. I leaned back the chair, gazing out at the swirling planets below. The starlight outside bathing my face in pale blues and purples, contrasting against the warm glow from the cockpit's instruments.*[/i][/color]

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[color=f26522][i][b]*My voice suddenly breaks the ethereal silence.*[/b][/i][/color] No sign of him anywhere in the surrounding system, sweetie...

[color=f26522][i][b]*I'm beside you, my posture relaxed but my eyes sharp, scanning the galactic map that floated holographically before us. It was the same result as always—no trace, no anomaly, nothing that suggested their elusive target was anywhere close.*[/b][/i][/color]