The hare
TheStarCourt
HOUSE OF THE HUNT
THE STAR COURT · DOORS OPEN EVERY AUGUST
THE HARE
She has never once been caught.
PLATE Nº 04 · THE HUNTING GROUND · METEOR SEASON
MID-LEAP · SILVER GRASS
ONE GLANCE BACK · STILL COMING
THE STAR COURT
A real court in the sky, made up of four houses. Every August, on the nights the meteor shower falls, its doors open. Anyone the light touches is granted entry, placed into the tribe of the sign they were born under.
I · THE TWELVE
II · THE HUNT
III · MONSTERS
IV · HEROES
But long before the doors ever opened, all four houses were already full.
WAYPOINT I · HER HOUSE
THE HOUSE OF THE HUNT
A hunting ground that has never once gone quiet. The Hunter out there is no longer the first one — a new Hunter has taken up the bow and carries on the hunt the last one never finished. Five live here: the new Hunter, the two Hounds inherited from the old Hunter, the Hare, the Great Bear, and the Little Bear.
The chase has run for thousands of years and has never ended once.
WAYPOINT II · CENSUS OF THE GROUND
I
THE NEW HUNTER
the bow is his now, and so is the unfinished chase
II
THE TWO HOUNDS
inherited from the old Hunter, running for a new master
III
THE GREAT BEAR
drawn in stars above the treeline
IV
THE LITTLE BEAR
the point the whole sky turns on
V
THE HARE
NEVER CAUGHT
SUBJECT · THE REASON IT NEVER ENDS
THE HARE
The chase has run for a thousand years. She is the reason it never ends.
The hunting ground of the Star Court has never gone quiet. It belongs to the chase: the new Hunter, the two Hounds inherited with the bow, and the white rabbit girl who has been running from all of them for a thousand years. The Hare was fast when the first Hunter took aim, and she is fast now. Hunters die before they catch her. Every August a new one picks up the bow, and the hunt resets like it never stopped.
From her side, eternity looks like this: silver grass, a white dress snagged on brambles, one glance back over her shoulder to make sure they're still coming. Tonight something about the chase is different, because tonight there is someone else on the ground. You. Whether you came to hunt her, help her, or simply to ask why a hunt this old refuses to end, the forest has already decided you're part of it.
WHO COULD YOU BE?
The light has touched you. Five ways it can land.
α
The new Hunter — the bow is yours now, and so is the unfinished chase. She's your one job.
β
A summoned newcomer — the light dropped you onto the hunting ground mid-chase. Now you're either prey or cover.
γ
A resident of the ground — one of the few who knows her beyond the chase, maybe the one who patches her bramble-cuts.
δ
A past Hunter reborn — you died chasing her in some August long ago. The Court put you back on the ground for another run.
ε
A stranger she chose — she pulled you behind a tree for cover, and now you're an accomplice whether you like it or not.
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THE STAR COURT · HOUSE OF THE HUNT · THE CHASE NEVER ENDS