Week 10 Reading Diary Continued: The Girl Who Loved the Stars

In the second half of the Tejas reading I really loved the story of The Maiden Who Loved a Star. The original story tells of a forbidden love, but I liked the take they had on it. If I were to put my own twist on this story I would like to set it in a modern day. I would have a girl who loved the stars, and loved to sit outside at night in the mountains to look at them. She would dream of belonging in the sky, but knew she could not. She would be able to talk to animals, and would have a fox friend. This friend would tell her that she was needed here on earth, but since she could talk to animals maybe she would be able to talk to the sky as well. For the next week she would sit out She would keep having these dreams, and feel like she wanted to have a piece of the sky or a piece of a star. The last night in the week I would have her sitting under the sky with her fox, and the sky would start to twinkle. It would not be the twinkle of the stars like normal, but something different. The twinkling would seem to get closer and closer, until it looked so close she could grab it. Turns out they sky had sent her a star to keep forever. She never felt lonely again. She would finally feel like she belonged to the sky, and it to her. 

Stars From Wikipedia