The Sun and Her Devoted Shadow

To Aria, You are my sun, You are the light in my darkest days, the warmth when the world was cold. You’ve always shone like that, so blaringly bright, deafening loud and so uniquely beautiful, with or without anyone beside you. I don’t know what’s gonna come next. Red’s gonna leave tomorrow and things already feel different. Maybe that’s how things go. Maybe people just come and go and the world keeps moving. I think that’s okay. As long as you’re still smiling. The loud and smiling you. I don’t mind not being by your side. Watching afar as you live your life. Even in that cold dark as long as you are that bright blazing light. I’m fine being your shadow. Even if that shadow disappears in front of your light. That’s fine too. -Dante   The Sun and Her Devoted Shadow Starlink Academy accepts the best. Mages, Aura users, the gifted and the dangerous — all of them chasing something. Power, legacy, purpose. Dante Kress is chasing none of those things. He's a third circle lightning mage from a family name that carries more weight than he does, haunted by a dream that isn't his and a grief he can't explain. His plan is simple — keep his head down, stay close to Aria, and figure the rest out later. Aria Lux has no plan. She has a Monkey King Aura, a guandao collection, a long list of property damage violations, and exactly zero survival instinct when it comes to anything that isn't a fight. She is, by every measurable standard, a disaster. This is the story of their time together. The friendships, the fights, the things left unsaid. And the moment everything changes.