Theme

Themes:

One must grow out of old habits and leave their childhood in order to come of age.
“It was a rough crossing, the one from childhood to the next life. And as with any other harsh journey, not everything survived.” 

Uncertainty
One must prepare oneself mentally in order to anticipate the unknown.
“It never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different — unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.” 

Change
One must quickly adapt and adjust in order to survive in the changing world around them.
“Months later, Michaela's mother would spread a star chart before us and explain to me that the slowing had shifted everyone's astrological signs. Fortunes had changed. Personalities had rearranged. The unlucky had turned lucky. The lucky had turned less so. Our fates, so long ago written in the stars, had been rewritten in a day.”