Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 6 - Sex Stories

Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 6

... first element is a gas called hydrogen, and there are vast clouds of it floating in the emptiness of space. Over time, gravity corrals them together, and the more hydrogen atoms gather, the greater their gravitational pull, drawing in more hydrogen, and so on. Eventually, they form masses of gas so large and dense that gravity forces the atoms to fuse together. Tremendous energy is released from this fusion, which we experience as sunlight.

Assuming this world and its sun is similar to the suns I’m used to, it has a diameter of 865,000 miles, over a hundred times the size of the planet we’re lying on, and during its lifetime, it’ll produce enough energy to obliterate this planet millions of times over. The stars continue fusing elements for billions of years until they eventually run out of fuel.

When that happens, one of two things can occur: They’ll collapse in on themselves, becoming vortexes of gravity that swallow everything that comes near, or they explode, releasing more energy in a single moment than in their entire lifetime. The elements forged in those stars are released into the cosmos, forming planets, new stars, and even us. All the matter in your body was crafted in the heart of stars. Each of us, every life form, is made of stardust.”

“Wow,” Valia gasped.

“Yep, and yet the power of our sun is just a fraction of what is required to break the laws of time. Even if I can rewrite the spell to require just one percent of the original power, it would ...

... still require a divine level of might.”

“You’ll figure it out, and Valon will help. The two of you has what it takes to break your curse. It’s only a matter of time.”

“Thanks.”

“You’re welcome. Now please, keep telling me about the stars. I’m curious.”

“Well there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand in the world.”

“Ok, that, I refuse to believe. You’re talking to someone has spent a lot of time counting stars.”

“Even your elf eyes can’t see everything. If every star in the universe was equally distanced from us, it would be as bright as daytime. I swear, it’s true, and that’s not even the crazy part. Want to know how far away the stars actually are? It takes eight minutes for a light particle, a photon, to travel from the sun to this world. In a year, it can cross almost six-trillion miles. That’s a hundred with ten more zeroes.”

“Nonsense.”

“It’s true. In astronomy, we use the term lightyear to measure distance. And the stars you see are so far from us, that it took the light millions of years to cross the distance. You are seeing the stars as they were millions of years ago. Perhaps that’s why you have such a hard time finding runic constellations. So many of the stars you see in the sky have already burned out and died ages ago, and their light is just now reaching us. The light of the stars is like the shadow of ghosts. The universe really is that vast.”

“Huh, I’m starting to see how Valon went crazy. This really messed with your ...