After Lilith disappeared, the Lands Between enjoyed a rare stretch of quiet.
Sure enough, as long as the Outer Gods stayed out of trouble, the world was this peaceful.
But the Avatar she left behind became one of Horace's biggest headaches.
After neither Stars nor Moon prevailed in their struggle, they actually reached a strange balance. They took turns controlling that body, like two roommates sharing an apartment and taking turns using the common areas.
Sometimes the Full Moon woke up, sometimes the Dark Moon, and sometimes Stars.
Stars seemed much livelier. She would point at shooting stars outside the window, pester Horace with questions like "What's that star called?" and secretly snatch control during Moon's turn, only to be driven back by Moon's silent glare.
Horace looked at the blue-haired girl before him and thought expressionlessly, Isn't this just multiple personalities?
"You need a name."
She tilted her head at him. "You pick one."
The first name that came to Horace's mind was Selene, the full moon goddess of Greek mythology, riding a silver chariot drawn by white horses, beautiful and distant.
But then he remembered Sellen, whom he had not seen in a long time...
Selene, Sellen.
...Aren't those just variants of the same name? Huh, a sorceress who chases the stars has a name that means moon?
Horace rejected that name and kept thinking.
The moon, wandering, a drifting celestial body...
A word suddenly came to him.
"How about Yera?"
Its etymology was the Hebrew word for "wandering." Wanderers of the cosmos-that was precisely the nature of stars.
At the same time, it was also a biblical name for the moon, without any mythological embellishment, simply a name referring to that celestial body.
A moon stripped of divinity...
Horace looked at the girl before him.
They answered