shooting star shower

[otherworlders]

It's late evening when it happens.

The sun has just set, but it feels darker still, like the dead of night - but not frightful. No, the night is full of anticipation; as if something is about to begin.

One minute there's silence, and the next, the Havens begin to reform. The flower field and its grove that has sustained you is the epicentre of things, but beyond it, the Havens fill themselves in like a potrait, colours filled in out to the horizon. What has taken weeks to prepare for takes minutes to finish as every place, every landmark, is restored to what it once was - and that's how you find yourself with the Summerfields at your feet, and the tranquil sight of Seahaven in the distance.

But the night is not yet done. The sky lights up as something passes overhead, and another, and another. It could be fireworks, but it's not. It could be a shooting star... but so many, lighting up the sky all over the Havens? Many land in the Seahaven harbour's shallows, but many more land elsewhere.