If the Stars Align

In a fractured world trembling under the weight of war, climate collapse, and quiet personal ruin, two souls find refuge in each other.

Lumen Carus is a quiet storm, an autistic, poetic college student who carries protest signs in one hand and hope in the other. Between classes and rallies, he fights fiercely for a better future: against bombs falling on Palestine, against the slow death of the Earth, against apathy. He believes resistance is love, and love must be lived out loud.

Cassiopeia Sidus, bright once like her namesake constellation, now flickers beneath the strain of chronic illness and burnout. She watches the world fall apart from the stillness of her bed, heart swollen with guilt and helplessness. She cannot march. She cannot shout. But she feels deeply, constantly. She helps Lumen in the only ways she knows how: by being his home, his softness, his tether when the world tries to pull him too far.

Together, they carve out something holy. In whispered stargazing rituals, in unsent love notes buried in their Notes apps, in gentle touches and shared silences, they rediscover what it means to resist through care, through presence, through staying.

This is not just a love story.
It's a story about surviving when everything hurts.
About showing up for each other when the world doesn't.
About the quiet, defiant kind of hope that doesn't look like a battle, but feels like a prayer.