No fancy sign out front, just a painted board that said Lumen’s. Said her goodbyes, packed her lonely bag and checked her bottle caps twice.Ī month later, she ducked into a dusty little saloon on the Red Planet. These folks were nice, but she was itching to go wander more anyhow. Trips to Mars, huh? Didn’t sound half-bad. Woke up the next morning all covered in dew to find a flyer got stuck to her boot in the night. And it’s gonna be us two again, and everythin’s gonna be alright.”Īnd the star sang back at her, so she knew it would come true. “I am, huh? So maybe, maybe I can wish on me instead? Or wish on me and you. “Say, I’m a star too, ain’t I?” she asked the second star. Felt like her buzz was singing a little, too. I ain’t the only one, right?”Īnd it tickled, it really did. “I want a friend,” she said to the first bright glow. So one night, Sonny stayed up late and watched them sparkle in one by one, and wished. Something with their buzz went all wrong when folks lied. Sonny didn’t get how they got that idea, that just wishing real hard would make it come true. Sometimes they said it with a rhyme, sometimes just pointed it out and closed their eyes real tight. The humans Sonny met on Earth would sometimes wish on a star.