Master of the Victorious Star & Sky Smashing Maiden

From The Whereabouts

Star and Sky are pair of slaves that once served a powerful Sidereal in his sanctuary within Creation. The two musicians caught Ash's eye at an event in Arjuf where he was invited by several Realm friends from House V'Neef. Ash reacted immediately in a desire to have them both, and during the event he engaged the owner in a game of chance and wits. Though he hardly played fair, it can be assumed neither of the two did, Ash came out on top and both slaves were his. It took both some time to become acquainted with their new life style, but they were continually given the chance to perform their music and eventually took to their life in the skies. Star & Sky don't relish combat, but do enjoy the lavish and exciting lifestyle provided by being apart of the crew of an independently controlled airship. They haven't been with Ash nearly as long as Waning Heart or Tick Tock; and Ash openly admits he doesn't expect the two to be lifers aboard Geronimo.

Death

Master of the Victorious Star and Sky Smashing Maiden were both unnecessary casualties of The Veil War, at least if you ask Ash. Though in reality almost all of the causalities of The Veil War were indirect stabs at related parties rather than the appropriate action against the appropriate party, that was the point. Star and Sky were performing a concert in a small banquet hall in Nexus, out on their own business on leave from the deck of The Geronimo when the tentacles of The Veil War found them. Both bodies were found bathing in their own blood, floating corpses within the hull of a suspended life raft that was strung up in rafters to resemble The Geronimo. The message was certainly clear to the right party, but as always it simply looked like another brutal murder without connection to the rest of the world who was left in the dark to the ongoing war between two of Creation's most powerful shadow organizations.

Ash immediately wanted to hunt down the culprits of the crime to extract his revenge for the brutal murders of two of his favorite crew members, when word reached him of the murders he flew into a rather incoherent rage that caught a large portion of the organization and even his circle off guard. Opal initially attempted to calm him, but she couldn't stop his rage and eventually Rizuka and Oak talked sense into him and stopped him from leaving the Range Homes. The ramifications of a made member extracting direct revenge against The White Veil Society could only serve to escalate the conflict between the two organizations, a consequence the Grass Spiders were not sure they could survive. In the end Moon, Naru, and Tick-Tock hunted down the murders and extracted the Grass Spider's revenge while keeping the members out of the direct conflict as was the protocol even at the height of The Veil War. (A mission to be written about itself.)