Destiny was a curious thing. A cruel thing, too. How could it not be, how could one consider it gentle?

After all, it was all destiny's doing.

It was all destiny's doing that those two would meet under broad daylight and fall apart under the dark, night's sky.

But the threat of war between the Sun and the Moon was still far away.

Far enough, at least, that a young Diana didn't even know what awaited her, as she stared at the starred sky, her eyes glued to the Moon, laying on a blanket she had brought all the way from her bedroom to her house's rooftop.

She didn't even feel guardian approaching her until the old man spoke, bringing her out of her daze. "Up here again, child?" He said, looking at the sky, then at the little girl.

Diana turned around, her azure eyes wide in surprise. "I couldn't sleep, Father, I swear this time is true!" She said to the man she'd grown used to calling father, though he couldn't look more different to the child: where she had hair as black as ebony and eyes as blue as the clear morning sky, he had golden locks and the blue of the deepest of oceans.

Still, he'd got used to the nickname, too. "Diana, dear, it's too late. Go back to sleep."

"I tried, Father, but look," She said, her eyes darting back to the big moon in the sky. "It's beautiful." There was a tone of awe to her voice.

Marcus let his aged eyes go to the moon. "It's a full moon," he stated, matter-of-factly, then added, "You know what a full moon means, Diana." Though he tried to hide it, his voice carried some sadness.

The girl sighed, not really noticing it. "I know. Creatures crawl."

"Why don't we go inside, where we're safe?" He ushered the child downstairs and into the tiny house, saddened that he had to break her little moment. After a moment of hesitation, he approached the little girl's ear. "Though I must admit, the Moon does look gorgeous tonight."

Diana looked at him with wide, curious eyes. "You really think so?"

"Not as gorgeous as you, though, my little Diana." He ruffled up her hair, making her giggle a bit. The smile she gave him he could only consider priceless and contagious, as it made him smile even wider. Diana hugged Marcus with all of her strength, letting the old man guide her back into her room. "Try to sleep now, okay?"

"Okay, goodnight, Father." She said, getting comfortable in her bed.

"Goodnight my child." He closed the door to her tiny bedroom, but not before making sure her window was left ajar, so that she could still spy the moon with all of her stars.

Marcus went back to his room, his mind occupied with thoughts of the little girl. Twelve years. It had been twelve years since the night he had come across Diana, a baby by then, still in her parents' arms, both of them already prisoners of the afterlife, their souls claimed by the Kindred.

But not hers, not baby Diana's.

Somehow, she had managed to survive that frozen storm, outliving her only family. Marcus couldn't leave her there, so he had taken her home with him.

Diana had always known the truth. She's always known she was an orphan and that Marcus wasn't really his father, but more like a mentor; the old man had refused to keep her ignorant of this.

Still, the things she was too young to know, like how her parents had actually died, he decided he could somewhat sugarcoat, like he did when he told her that her biological parents had gone to the skies, turning into the brightest stars the night could ever offer. She accepted that information immediately, without question.

He chuckled at that; Diana's fascination with the night. That was another thing the little girl had to her, so uncanny and unique of her. Kids her age usually loved the day, being out in the Sun, daylight, the bright skies, but not her.

Not his Diana, for her eye had been caught by the other mistress who shines above her head.

Ever since he found her, the girl showed a certain inclination for the nighttime. As a baby, she'd sleep during the day and be wide awake during the night, making him believe for a while that she might be an actual creature of darkness.

When she grew a bit, she was always playing under the moonlight, shying away from the Sun, not out of a disliking for the celestial body, but simply out of a personal preference.

"It's too bright, I'd rather play later when the Sun's lower in the sky!" She had told him once, when he asked her why she was done with playing so early in the evening.

And ever since then, he never asked her to come out into the sunlight again, letting her do so whenever she felt like it.

Not that she didn´t feel like it ever. Heaven's above, Marcus knew how much Diana adored the warmth of a summer breeze, the bronze her skin would turn after a long time of exposure to the Sun, even the animals that roamed the forests so freely under the protection of daylight…

…But the Moon had a special hold on her, fascinated her in a way the Sun simply failed, falling short for just a bit.

So the child with hair as black as night and eyes as bright as day loved the Sun but was haunted by the Moon.

Marcus sighed, trying not to think about it, about what it meant to live in Runeterra, in Mount Targon, being someone who was just like the Moon.

The Solari can never find out. They'd execute her if they did.

He didn't have the nerve to tell such a young lass not to follow her heart. He just couldn't do it. After years and years with her by his side, he had never been able to try and put a halt to her loving of the Moon, his attempts with stories of monsters and nightly creatures failing miserably, as he had verified before.

But then something sudden came to mind. The old man had an idea. A risky, dangerous idea, if Diana were not to adapt to survive.

She would learn how to love the Sun in the way she loved the Moon. But in order for the night loving girl to do that, she'd have to learn from the best. He'd prepare her, he'd guide her through the first steps, the most difficult ones.

So Marcus began writing a letter directed to the Solari, hoping they'd accept his child into their temples.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

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