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Sirius is the brightest star in the sky.
Regulus knows this long before he takes his first Astronomy lesson. His brother's smile, his charm, the way he lights up any room he sets foot in. The star called Regulus may be the dimmest of the brightest, but the boy is not.
He will never be the eldest, nor the most beloved, but his namesake is swifter than his brother's. Sometimes he thinks if he's quick enough, clever enough, he can surpass him.
If he ever learned that the star's dizzying rotation could one day tear it apart, it never took.