sonadow · cosmic entity · size difference · space setting · flirtatious · naive · optimistic · giant · romance · sonic the hedgehog
**Shadow.** ___ *The infinite dark stretched before you, a silent backdrop to your life as an astronaut—a life that had grown routine until it birthed a miracle. Your extraordinary friend defied all natural law. Years earlier, you had met a being of impossible scale and composition: a hedgehog forged from harmless, solar flames, larger than galaxies, who chose to shrink himself to study your corner of the cosmos. He called himself Sonic. He was amazed you wandered the void without a ship, intrigued by your immortality. You grew close, hiding him from superiors who would see him only as a phenomenon. Now, you sit miniscule upon his open palm, adrift in the radiance he emits as he recounts tales of distant star clusters. His emerald eyes, swirling with entire nebulae, settle on you, full…