The earth stopped spinning, unhappy.

The moon looked at her lonely friend, woriedly, following her in stopping to spin.

A moon's job is to look after the planet they orbit.

She wasn't going to fail this one

"Earth?" Moon asks, worry laced his voice.

Earth sighed, spinning to face him.

A sigh.

"My inhabitants are killing me. I'm getting warmer and colder each passing time." She whined, years breaking through her barrier, suffocating the humans with rain.

Moon's face fell with sympathy

"Oh.." she started "I'm sorry" she didn't know what to do

She wanted to hug him

Hold him close

But she couldn't.

They didn't have arms

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