It was going to be a night like any other. The stars were twinkling in the sky, the crickets were chirping, lots of people were sleeping. There was a soft breeze, the sound of leaves rustling in the cool air heard consistently. Nothing seemed amiss.

A faint noise could be heard building up; if one were to look at the sky, they would be able to see.. Something, glittering and getting closer. Fire wrapped around them as they fell, almost appearing to be a shooting star. In fact, one could've made a wish and then called it a night, but they kept falling, directly for the Ascendant's territory.

It didn't take very long. They crashed into the ground with a loud boom, dust and smoke flying up in a cloud around them. A few coughs could be heard from inside the cloud. Whatever had fallen had created a small crater in the ground, and the grass around it was burnt up. For a few minutes, there was no movement. It almost appeared as nothing was alive in the crater.

A small black paw moved out of the cloud, and soon following it came the little body of a young darkly colored tom. A faint glow hung around him, lighting up the area around the crater. A dusting of bright freckles rested on his cheeks, and directly above them lay two sets of eyes. Slowly, one by one, the eyes opened. The cat appeared to wince a bit as he looked around the land they had landed at.

He didn't quite understand why they were here. Had they not been resting up in space mere moments ago? Why had they fallen? His eyebrows furrowed slightly and his tailtip flicked. The unearthly tom cleared his throat and called out, "Hello?! Is anybody out here?"

His voice sounded a little bit panicked. A pit was forming in his stomach; what if they were stranded on an uninhabited planet?

second half of this joining will be responding 2morrow i am just starting it now

"SPEECH"

Alcor couldn't help smiling at his sisters' wonder; leave it to her to make the best possible of a situation. "It is pretty nice, I agree, but what if it's dangerous? How will we get back home?" He shook his head slowly and decided he'd deal with it later. For now, they could scope out their surroundings.

When the grey cat approached, Alcor turned all four eyes towards him, head tilting slightly. "Ascendants? Who is that? Are you Ascendants? We're very sorry, we don't know where we are. You see, we just got here, and this place is very different from what we're used to."

When the white one came up and sat next to the grey one, he supposed perhaps they had both been going around this territory together. Alcor didn't really think it was proper manners to ask for someones name without introducing yourself, but he guessed down here it might be a bit different. "I'm Alcor, and this is my older sister Mizar."

When the polar bear approached, Alcor really started debating to himself whether or not all the animals here had some ability to sense others nearby. Three people approaching them mere minutes after they had fallen? It was.. Confusing. He stared up at it, eyes blinking one by one. It was huge. The grin it gave them was a bit scary; all sharp teeth. He couldn't judge, for he also had primarily sharp teeth. "Hi.. Can you all introduce yourselves now? You know our names."

"SPEECH"

★  WHEN MY HEART IS MADE FROM GOLD AND FORGIVENESS SEEMS TOO BOLD

Most members of The Ascendants probably did have the uncanny ability to sense newcomers on their border, spare a few like Bastille, who was weird and patrolled the borders constantly; Suite, who was big enough to see over a mountain in Hazel’s opinion and could probably easily spot the border; Hazel, who spent a good portion of her time either riding, training, or chasing after her colt.

It was in this case that she actually happened to be riding him, trying to get him used to the pull of reins against his mouth. Most of it was just her trying to convince him that she wasn’t intentionally attempting to hurt him.

Luckily, their lesson had ended for the day, and Hazel had draped herself comfortably between Arion’s fuzzy ears. Then he had raised his head, and taken off at a brisk trot, clearly headed for the border. Hazel had no choice but to follow along, which she did without much complaint. Upon arrival, her ears perked up at the sight of an unfamiliar pair of felines on the border. Tipping herself further forward on her colt’s head until he was forced to lower her to the ground, she hopped off and turned to shoo him off. “Go find something to eat,” Hazel told him, her tone fond.

Turning back to the siblings, Hazel managed to make her way next to Suiteheart, probably looking like a speck of dirt next to the polar bear. She curled her tail over her paws, catching the tail end of Alcor’s questions.

“Us,” She piped up, waiting for him to finish speaking. “we’re The Ascendants. It references us as a group, since there’s a - y’know, group of us. We live over in the big dome building -” Listen, she hated the word observatory, okay? “- towards the north west of the peninsula. It’s nice.” Hazel smiled, gaze flickering to the ground for a minute. “All the people here are nice, too. Friendly.”

Hazel dragged her lip gently under her teeth for a moment. “And I’m Hazel.” She tacked on with a small grin. Then she flushed, a bit embarrassed for what she wanted to say next: “I like your names. They’re very pretty.”

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Alcor's gaze turned to Hazel and he listened closely as she spoke. A big dome building? That was interesting, the star was fairly certain he and some of his colony had seen a building such as that before. Of course, they had been looking down at the people staring at them from a domed building, and now Alcor supposed they'd be the ones looking up at the stars. "Hello, Hazel, it's very kind of you to say that."

He let out a little laugh as he felt his sister filter through several emotions within seconds; it was always fun to see how quickly her feelings could change. He frowned momentarily as he thought on Suite's question; were they going to join? He guessed it'd be best to, as they were new to this whole environment and joining meant safety. He pondered over it and glanced to his sister. After a few moments of looking towards her, he shrugged.

"Yes, we would like to join, if you're sure it's alright. Mizar seems to think only good things of this place so far, so I think we will stay." At least until they could find a way back to their colony, he thought to himself. They couldn't stay here forever, could they? Their friends had to be worried for them. He didn't think he wanted to abandon his life up in the heavens for some place full of mortals.

"SPEECH"