Advent Drabble 22 - Starshine

[earlgreytea68]

Requested by kaffy_r .

Rose had by this time grown used to the light of all sorts of stars. On Earth, of course, the only star to shine was the sun. But out in the wide world of the universe, all sorts of stars shone in all sorts of ways. Her children grew up speaking not of sunshine but starshine.

Old habits died hard, thought. So when Rose accidentally remarked that it was sunny outside, her children laughed at her.

“Starry!” Fortuna exclaimed. “It’s starry out!”

“That’s not the sun,” Brem corrected his mum. “It’s Arcturus!”

“It’s Arcturus-y out!” Athena added.

And Rose smiled.

Comments

[kaffy_r]

Oh, thank you. This is lovely, and what a natural way to use the word!

[earlgreytea68]

Thank you for the prompt! I'm glad you liked it! :-)

[rereader]

The flaw of being super-hyper-cosmopolitan is forgetting that the locals always think of their own star as “the sun”!

[earlgreytea68]

Hahaha, yes!

re: Starshine

[acciochocolate]

That's a rather interesting way to think abt things. I suspect most alien planets w/ humanoid populations w/o space travel outside of their own solar system might still call their planet "earth" and their star "the sun", but that is an old SF conceit. :)

Very cute drabble! I always adore more of the Chaosverse. :)

Re: Starshine

[earlgreytea68]

Idk, it seemed like the Doctor's kids would definitely know the names. ;-)