I saw flashing lights, even before I opened my eyes. I d
I didn't know where I was—just that it was dark and bright at the same time. I had no idea how that could be until a cat purred.
“Your Majesty, you really shouldn’t indulge in matters such as this; we don’t want you to spend your precious time on daily occurrences.”
I opened my eyes. If there was royalty here, I needed to bow to them. I don’t know why, but I suddenly felt the urge to do so for some unknown reason. But when I did open them, all I saw was a cat whose fur was as dark as midnight, with little white specks glinting like the stars. Its eyes burned bright yellow. They looked like the moon, except the moon had a gaping hole at the centre—what I presumed to be normal cat-eye patterns (I am no expert in cat-ology, so forgive me for any mistakes). Standing next to it was a royal attendant, whom I guessed to be the royal attendant, as he was bowing. But there was no royalty around—none that I saw anyway.
The attendant bowed towards the cat and asked her, “Your Majesty, I request that you grant me permission to acquaint our newest star with his surroundings.”
Wait, the attendant was... addressing the cat as royalty? What? How could the cat possibly be royalty?royalty?
“You don’t have to ask me thus, Sun. You have permission to do as you please. But yes, do give Nex the basic rundown of stardom,” the cat said in a perfect human voice.
The cat was royalty.

“What’s going on? How is she speaking? Where am I? How do you know my name?” I gushed forth, finally noticing my surroundings.  surroundings.  
I was in a brightly lit room and was sitting on a bed softer than the clouds. The walls of the room were painted black, and various constellations were painted across them.  There was a win... I sablue, and Earth. Round, blue, alit nighttime, perhaps nighttime. 
And I realised something.
The environment outside my room looked like the moon. 
“Welcome to Stardom, or more commonly known as the Moon. The home of all the stars in the night sky. And standing before you is Her Starry Majesty, the Brightest Star, the Queen of the Universe, Lady Ruina,” said the attendant. 
I was stunned. How was I here? What was I doing on the moon? How was a cat the queen of the entire universe? 
As if reading my thoughts, the cat purred. “Sun, I entrust the responsibility of acclimatising Nex to Stardom to you.” She then leapt out of bed and proceeded to leave. 
“Wait!” I called out to her. “What of my family?”
Her eyes darkened, a familiar human emotion visible in them: sadness. 
“Sun will inform you of your unforeseen circumstances. But remember this: no star is without its past,” she said, and left, sadness lingering in her wake, her words making no sense at all. 
I feared the worst. 
And that turned out to be true. 
The Sun, who told me he was the ruler of the solar system, would say, "Oh, that’s my dog, Ethan. Say hi, Ethan!” continued Her Starry Majesty’s words. 
“You have left the mortal realm. Your deeds have earned you a place here, amidst the stars. And now, you will shine light upon the world, illuminating others’ paths and helping them thus, as countless before have done—for you.” 
So the saying was true—what goes around comes around. Wait, what did he say? I “left the mortal realm." That means, my family, I had so much left to do! I needed to say so many things and so many words, but... I guess you don’t wait to do such things.
Neither does death want to take you.