The Curious One: A Short Story: Twinkle In The Sky

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Twinkle in the Sky
In the dry cold desert one lonely night. A child by the name of The Curious One often questioned the origin or the meaning of everything he came in contact with. As he walked side by side his grandmother also known as The Wise One, he couldn 't help but notice the many things that shined so high in the sky. As he grew up over time he quickly picked up on the fact that the whole village seemed to ask his grandma for her advice. In his eyes she seemed to know everything, from how things worked to why other things happened. So he knew if there was anyone that could answer his question it would be his grandma.
As he walked side by side her he couldn 't help but keep looking at the sky which was blanked with so many of these
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What could those bright things in the sky at night be? How would one of those belong to him? Who would give it to him? Once he got it would he be able to play with it? So many questions floated in his head. His mind soon floated back at the thought he noticed his grandmother had yet to come out to circle that morning. It was odd as he knew grandma was usually the first one around the circle every morning greeting everyone else with that smile and a warm hug. As he made his way to her hut his mind was still on those twinkly things in the sky.
When he found her she didn 't look well, she in fact looked sicker than anyone he had seen her heal. He tried his best to do all that he could to nurse her back to health. Saying all the prayers that he had ever heard her say to anyone else. But nothing seemed to be making her better. As night began to fall he again noticed all those things that twinkled in the sky. What could they be? Now with his grandma dancing with death he was afraid that he would never know the answer. He crawled back into his grandmas hut, not to ask questions but simply to lay with her. As the night passed so did his
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But it was no longer empty, as now a bright star was twinkling in its place. This star was unlike any other star that had noticed before. This one was brighter than all the others. After the ceremony and after most of the elders had all left. He found one quietly sitting on a tree trunk. He wandered over to her and asked her if she had seen the bright twinkle above his grandmother’s casket. She let him know that in fact she had seen the bright twinkle and proceeded to tell him that it was his grandmothers soul. He asked the older one had come out of the twinkling star. To which she replied by only pointing to the night sky. It was at this point that the Curious One soon realized just what all those stars in the sky truly were. He realized why his grandmother said that they would only approve meaning once one belonged to

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