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 Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 4:41 pm
Quote: Prompt 2 (Paint the Night Sky): Destiny City has already had its fair share of snowfall but for the past week it’s just been constant. There hasn’t been a clear sky in days, and even when it’s not snowing it’s still too cloudy to see anything. Finally, one night, the clouds have finally thinned--only to reveal something more surprising than the suddenly good weather. A glorious display of colorful light dances over Destiny City. Auroras are uncommon in this area, but it’s something unique to see. Especially because it almost seems like the colors blend like watercolors, and look like they’re deliberately weaving around each other.
He rolled over enough so he could try to reach the window and pulled back the curtains. Something was in the sky.
While he didn’t really need the ladder to get down, he still was careful about where he stepped. He grabbed a big sweater to pull on because of how chilly it was, and leaned over Vyn’s bed to shake his shoulder. Hopefully he didn’t sap out too much of his own energy before going to sleep.
“Vyn, there’s something outside. Lights in the sky.” There didn’t seem to be any cause for alarm, but it was worth investigating.
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 4:57 pm
“Hmmmwha?”
Vyn came awake with a wet sucking sound like he had too much saliva in his mouth, which was close enough to being the truth, since he was drooling into his pillow. Earth beds were comfortable. A nice, cushy surface with soft sheets and a big, warm blanket — or several blankets, as the case most certainly was with the weather getting colder and colder. Vyn could easily make a hobby of sleeping if there weren’t more important matters to tend to.
He wiped the drool off of his face and pushed himself up, blinking through the darkness of the room.
“What lights?” he asked. “It’s probably just an airplane again. Or the human space station.”
Still, he blinked and yawned and got up to see what Aliez was talking about. One could never be too careful here on Earth.
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:01 pm
Aliez shook his head, and shook Vyn’s shoulder again. But since he was unable to decide what words he wanted to use to describe the strange lights in the sky, he climbed into Vyn’s bed and over top of him so he could reach the curtains better, and pulled them open.
“Look! It’s like the lights are dancing,” Aliez said, holding his ComTech up to see if he could get a reading from so far away, but it didn’t seem to want to focus on the moving lights and was giving him data on the window instead.
“I’m going outside to get a better look-- Sorry, are you okay?” he winced as he was pretty sure he put more weight than intended on Vyn as he climbed back over him. He could have gotten out of the bed on the other side, but he was too eager to see what these lights were to really think straight.
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:09 pm
“Ow,” Vyn complained, but he didn’t shove Aliez off.
He didn’t have to. Aliez was already moving. And apologizing. Typical Aliez.
“M’okay.”
Vyn yawned again, stretched, and groaned as he thought about leaving the warm bed. Part of him didn’t want to, especially if it meant going outside, where it was wet and snowy and… okay, so winter weather was very beautiful, but it was cold. Vyn wasn’t used to the cold. Sometimes it was refreshing, but too much of it made him long for a cocoon of warm blankets.
But he didn’t want Aliez going alone. What if it was dangerous?
“Wait for me,” he mumbled.
Vyn made himself get up. He put on the warmest clothing he could find on short notice — a couple of big sweaters, a stray pair of mittens, and the first pair of shoes he saw in the dark. He grabbed a blanket, too, wearing it around his shoulders like a cape (and immediately thought of the Commodore, which tore a forlorn sigh out of him).
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:15 pm
He was already tugging on his shoes when Vyn finally decided to get up, and couldn’t help but smile a little when Vyn mumbled for him to wait for him. He made sure to bundle up as well, and pulled on some mittens and a hat to keep his ears warm.
“Shh, I don’t want to wake anyone else. Not yet,” he said, because if it was dangerous then it would be important for them to keep each other safe. But if it was just something like the sunrise, then he would of course want his fellow Vanguardians to see something that he thought was beautiful.
Once Vyn was beside him, he reached for the door leading outside and pushed it open. The air was very crisp and bit at his nose immediately, but the sky above made it entirely worth it.
“What is it?” he mumbled in awe as he stared up at it. “It’s like a ribbon or… I’m not sure. Almost like electrical current, but not like that horrible lightning,” he mused, obviously not knowing what to think but stared in wonder either way.
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:27 pm
Vyn tiptoed quietly after Aliez. When they stepped outside, he brought part of the blanket up over his head like a hood. Snow crunched beneath their feet — not like autumn leaves, but the sound it made was still somehow just as satisfying.
But it was still so cold.
“Something about the atmosphere, maybe,” he said, tipping his head back for a better look.
At least it didn’t seem dangerous. Nothing split through the sky or struck out to hurt them. The colors were subtle, wending too and fro, like some sort of dance.
“I think I heard a human mention this phenomenon,” he continued, “but it was implied that our location is too far south for us to view it. North lights. Aurora bury-Alice. Maybe something about the changing weather has brought it further south.”
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:33 pm
Aliez frowned thoughtfully. He would have to research this phenomenon more. Why would something that was normally further north be seen where they were? He knew it was probably paranoia, but the energy from Archideus still weighed heavily on his mind. He’d been mostly unconscious when the piece had exploded, but he thought he could remember barely opening his eyes enough to see the shining lights across the sky. Not quite like this aurora berry. But something like it.
“Maybe the Commodore would like to see?” he quietly suggested, because while he would like for their fellow Cadets to see these strange lights, maybe Vyn would agree that the Commodore probably needed to see more than the inside of his little house in the Dark Kingdom.
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:43 pm
Vyn pouted.
They shouldn’t bother the Commodore this late at night. They shouldn’t bother the Commodore at all if they could help it, even if the Commodore would probably insist he didn’t mind.
What if the Commodore was resting? What if he wasn’t resting? What if he was… Vyn could hardly stomach the thought, but what if the Commodore was sleeping on the couch? Again? Why did Aliez have to mention the Commodore? Now Vyn wasn’t going to be able to go back to sleep. He’d spend all night worrying.
Vyn pouted some more.
“Maybe he would,” he inevitably agreed.
For once, maybe Vyn wanted to be a bother.
The lights were pretty and worth a look, if nothing else.
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