Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

From The Gardener of Nahi by David Wozniak (2012, self-published, available via Amazon and Wattpad atleast):

"Do you know what they really are?"He was looking up at the stars through a break in the trees.

I was so surprised at the question, at a question, that I was speechless for a long time. At last I answered him. "The stars? Yes. I know more than I'd care to."

"Tell me about them."

[...]

So in the end I gave them both the brutal truth, even though I knew it would probably not help them much. I gave them numbers, definitions, statistics, scientific concepts they had no hope in understanding in the five minutes of my ramblings. And when I finally finished, I looked up at the glorious simplicity of the night sky from my humble vantage point of the forest floor and my explanation almost seemed amiss. Down here, Akuli's words made more sense to me.

"So all of these stars," Akuli eventually said. "Each of them is a sun like ours, only far away?"

"Yes."

"You said some of them are already dead? That the light from the sun is all that remains for us to see?"

"That's true."

"Is it the same with people, Anon? Good people die, go back into the Father Sea^[*], yet their light remains here?"

I truthfully told him that was a profound correlation I had not thought of before.

[*] "Father Sea" = sky, "Mother Sea" = ocean