'Your mother had the same eyes as you,' Luminea says. 'You would have seen it if you hadn't killed her,' says Vega. 

Vega is one of my 9 siblings, the 5th eldest, known as the Astral Dreamer: Vega has the ability to shape dreams and visions within the Starlight Kingdom, providing celestial guidance and insight to its inhabitants. At times, I feel like the terrible dreams I get at night are a doing of his but he says he would never even waste his powers and effort on me (which seems very wrong because he takes every chance he can to mock me) 

But anyway, I am reminded by the memory that I have to face each day. I killed my mother; if not for me, she would be here with all my other siblings, and I wouldn't have to go through all this torture if only she had been here.

I leave for my room, and Luminea comes with me. She goes everywhere I go, special orders from father to never leave me alone, no matter where I am. I don't understand why he cares so much about where I am when he hates me for the same reason all of my siblings do.

Luminea stares horrified as I take my brush and swoosh it over my head, and luminous Nebula blue hair drapes all over my shoulders till my waist. Suna runs up to me and starts curling up at my feet. I never understood why she hates silver hair like everyone else on me but melts whenever I have my natural hair on.

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'Cyra, you can't have your natural hair out while the blinds are open in broad daylight,' says Lumi. 'Relax, Lumi, no one can see me in a tower above the clouds with you and Suna in my room.'

'You never know when someone is watching,' says Lumi.

'Enlighten me with your most peculiar vision now, then, Lady Luminea Seraphina Asteralwind.' I say. 

Lumi glares at me for using her full name but sighs and closes the blinds. 'Watch out for why and to whom you say that name, always.'

I understand what she means. The Asteralwind family is known throughout the kingdom for their most amazing powers; they are the most favored nobles by the king himself, my father. They have such extraordinary powers that no one has ever known the full extent of their abilities. Lumi is the eldest daughter of the Asteralwind family, and I have never seen her powers.

She was the best friend of my mother and the only one willing to be my nanny after finding out that I was born with no powers and Nebula blue hair. She says she fell in love with me the moment she saw me.

If only I hadn't killed her best friend, would I have believed her.