The Girl With the Star-Bit Eyes
II. The Star in the Tin Can
"Do you think they have green beans in space, Rosalina?"
The eight-year-old girl rolled her deep blue eyes. "Don't be dumb, Ronaldo. All they have in space are stars and planets and comets."
"Nuh-uh," her little brother protested. "They have stuff ON the planets too. Like people!"
Ronaldo had two major obsessions. The first was space, and the second was people. In fact, the two went hand in hand. He longed to leave the lonely hills and valleys of Rosalia and head to a place with exotic sights and sounds, with buildings more intriguing than the castle he'd been born and raised in, and with more people than he could even imagine. Someday, he claimed, he would find a way to get into space and seek adventure.
"If you're going to be the ruler, Rosalina, and not me, what's the point of me staying?" he often pointed out.
Rosalina couldn't understand this viewpoint in the least. She loved Rosalia, loved its wide-open exp
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