CHAPTER 1 SUMMARY:
Lilu has become Starborn, and it has broken her heart. Steeped in regrets for everything she lost by passing through the Unity, she descends upon the Settled Systems again because she doesn’t know where else to go. But she does know who she feels is responsible. Nevertheless, she returns to the scene of the crime, where it all started: Constellation.

And there, Lilu finds things are… different. Difficult relationships are easier. Is this what a multiverse is really like? Not an identical copy, but a riff off what she had known before? What else might be different in how the universe plays out over time? One thing that wasn’t different: her rage when she sees the one person to whom she can assign the blame for being there in the first place. And is he in for a rude awakening when she gets her hands on him. That’s one cowboy heading for a showdown at the OK Corral, and he doesn’t even know it’s coming.

Read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/87782236/chapters/232626786