There Is Beauty Here As Well Alcor finds connection in an unusual place AO3 link He couldn’t k

There Is Beauty Here As WellAlcor finds connection in an unusual placeAO3 linkHe couldn’t keep doing this.They were past the point of being able to respond to him. It had been a few million years since they had anything to say, and their core was, all things considered, fairly cool by now. Alcor stared at the massive diamond that was all that was left of his… had they been friends? They had certainly talked a lot, for a few billion years. Did that make them friends? They hadn’t been that interesting of conversations. But they had been something, which is what he needed. It was a little hard to get too invested in a conversation knowing that the other person would be little more than a smoldering ball of carbon and oxygen in only tens of billions of years. It was getting harder to talk to stars. Trillions of years ago it had seemed like such a great idea. Other mortals had such short lives, but at the time the lives of stars had seemed infinite. And by comparison to other mortals, they may as well had been. In comparison to him, however…Well. A main sequence star had millions to billions of years. Their remnants lasted longer but not long enough. A red dwarf could actually live a decent chunk of time but they tended to not be as talkative as their more energetic cousins, and as stars weren’t the best conversationalists to start with… There were a few red dwarfs that he made an effort to swing by once in a while, but for the most part he let them be. He drifted away from the cooled stellar remnant, from the three long dead planets that circled it still. He couldn’t keep doing this.AO3 link -- source link

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