25: Corona Borealis
Brick pads onto stage, tail twirling a baton dexterously.
"Let's get on with it! Please welcome Millie, who will be presenting Corona Borealis!"
The crowd boos and someone even throws the carcass of a rotting rabbit at the light grey tabby she-cat, who is hit right in between the eyes. She hisses and spits down at the crowd, who collectively roars.
"Stop that, you ungrateful brats! Oh, if only my dear Briarlight is here today. She'd protect me!"
"But she's crippled—"
Millie snaps her head towards the ginger tom currently offstage with a painful-sounding click.
"That's beside the point, Brick!"
"Just get on with it!" moaned the crowd.
Millie shaked out her fur, nose turned upwards. "Fine then. As the ginger scum said, I will be presenting the Corona Borealis, or the Northern Crown. It represents some random Cretan princess who wore it at her stupid twoleg wedding. I don't know what it is with the dull twolegs, with their complicated customs and all those rules. ("You do realise that the entire Warriors community is based around a set of rules called the Warrior Code, right?" Brick muttered from backstage.) Greystripe and I are much more romantic."
"You're getting off topic! No one wants to hear about you and the fat tom anyway! He was supposed to be Silverstream's all along!"
The presenter's anger sharpened to a point and she took a slow, long breath. "WHATHOWDAREYOUIDIDN'TCOMEHEREJUSTTOBEPUTDOWNLIKETHISYOUBLEEPINGBLEEPBLEEPSIEBLEEPS—"
The bodyguards drag the cursing she-cat off, and Brick pads onto the stage once more.
"Alright, since our presenter is proving to be a little bit of an issue, I'm going to take over. As she said, the constellation represents the crown worn by the Cretan princess, Ariadne, at her wedding. She was the one that helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur and also the one that was abandoned on the island of Naxos by him. Dionysus the wine god saw her bawling her heart out there, and they fell in love and got married. It is said that after their wedding she threw the crown into the sky, and it turned into the constellation Corona Borealis.
"Here is the image."
The swift, informative presentation concludes with a round of applause.
Written by Saph! 🍩✨
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