Audrae – The Chaotic Star

If Morael represents order, control and correction, then Audrae in turn symbolizes all that is free, uninhibited and exploratory. Audrae was possessed of a natural fascination with mysteries unknown. Even in the midst of frenetic activity to save the Zohra Nebula, she was wont to drift off in a trance, oft forgetting her purpose or the task at hand. Long disapproving of her sister’s behavior, Morael was able to correct the trajectory of the Zohra Nebula, allowing it to withstand the pull of the dark abyss. Audrae, however, would often flit about the celestial expanse, coming and going as she pleased. Her travels would even lead her, misguided, to that dark realm, whence she sought the truth concealed in darkness. Audrae, however, cared naught for all that, and never took her sister’s criticism to heart. She was part of the Zohra Nebula’ s innate will to survive, so her very existence must therefore have meaning. If the root cause of the Zohra Nebula’s destruction could not be found, then even if disaster was temporarily averted, there was no guarantee that such a threat would not arise again in the future.
Even in the midst of such conflict, this final farewell could not be prevented. Audrae, racing excitedly back from outside the nebula’s boundary, had wished to share with Morael all she had seen and pondered. However, for the first time ever she witnessed an expression of powerlessness on the face of her sister, she who had always been in total control. Silently, they watched as the dark abyss inexorably swallowed the very thing to which they owed their existence.
The nebula faced its own demise with a struggling, reluctant whimper. Audrae, already affected by Morael’s low spirits as they bore witness to the chilling finality, found herself shaken by such a scene. This was the first time in her existence that she had directly sensed the impermanence of the universe.
The essence of the nebula that still lingered was transformed into the Heart of Zohra. This granted Morael the extraordinary ability to construct a solar force field, and became the terminal proof that the Zohra Nebula had once existed. The flickering, dying light that the star cluster emitted at the end became the core impetus behind the Cosmic Shower. This fell into Audrae’s hands, thereby entrusting her with all the hope and power that had once been the nebula’s.
Although she no longer had to bear the burden of responsibility for the nebula’s future, Audrae nonetheless had a vague awareness that she could not simply stop there.
What was that powerful force that destroyed the Zohra Nebula? Where might that dark abyss, which had so voraciously swallowed up their whole nebula, eventually lead? Were there other existences, analogous to their own, elsewhere in the vastness of the universe?
These questions kept nagging Audrae, rendering her restless and irritable. Morael, however, could not understand her sister’s preoccupation with such queries. As the entity responsible for order, she always admonished Audrae to simply follow the rules as she did. In truth, she held that Audrae’s inaction was ultimately to blame for the final fate of the Zohra Nebula.
“Audrae, your recklessness will bring nothing but disaster.”
“But things change all the time, Morael. Perhaps randomness and disorder are the true nature of the universe.”
With that, Audrae bid farewell to her sister, who was so stubbornly disapproving of it all, and decided to seek her own answers.
No longer bound by order, she was free to follow her own instincts. She explored star after star, planet after planet, roaming the universe wheresoever the solar winds blew her. She passed by deserted and overgrown planets, and discovered an existence similar to her own, deep in one of the furthest corners of the universe. She transformed the power entrusted to her into a stellar bow and arrow, with which she fought against the malicious darkness.
She loved her adventures, never feeling alone nor scared of the unknown. No one can say how long it took but, eventually, she touched upon a tiny corner of fundamental truth about the universe.
It was a shadowy abyss, where order had been thrown out of balance and evil festered. Dead planets loomed within, perhaps even the nebula which once had been her home.
This was the place known as the Void Realm. Here were the forces of destruction, chaos and disorder continually engendered by a dormant, hidden will. These negative forces spread, affecting the outside world, and might one day reduce the entire universe to empty nothingness…
Morael was lost in contemplation as she listened to her long-lost sister recount all she had seen and experienced. There was also no denying how she shone like the very stars themselves, having broken free of the rules and order she had once imposed on her.
Moreover, that small corner of truth at which she had peeked was the same as the answer Morael herself had found in Esperia.
“Pure order or disorder is not the guiding principle.” Audrae extended her hand to her sister as she spoke, “Perhaps we should work together, and seek where the truth ends.”
Morael gazed at the outstretched hand, and sighed deeply.
“Unimpeded exploration may bring us one step closer to the truth.”