The Meteor Shower (3) : It wouldn’t be a star festival without a meteor shower! Right on time, a beautiful array of shooting stars graces the night sky. This time of year is unnaturally clear and it’s incredibly easy to see the stars. Most meteor fragments appear to be little white or yellow lights streaming across the sky, but if you watch closely enough you may find that some of them seem to be a whole rainbow of colors. The scientists have reported that it’s just different components burning up as they enter the atmosphere, but there’s something undeniably magical about it.
Dreama decided she needed some alone time this night, the night of the meteor shower. She wanted to see them for herself alone. This was a difficult night for her every year, for it was the night of her brothers' death.
Kelly's badly burned face leaned over her own unmarked face. Quinn was already dead. Kelly saw the pain in her eyes. He could barely speak, it was possible he was delirious. "Your pain will come to an end when you see magical lights in the sky, someday years from now."
So for years, while openly searching for her cousins, she also secretly searched for these "magical lights in the sky." When she heard of the magical meteor shower at Star Fest, she'd thought she found them at last.
She watched them and did look closely and yes they were magical. But they did not heal her heart. She slumped in her chair, dejectedly, looking at the ground.
A police officer on patrol came walking by and stopped, seeing her mood. His head was almost shiny when he took off his hat to acknowledge her. "Is someone miss..." and somehow, he just knew. "You've lost people dear to you."
"And how would you know, why would you care?" She spat at him, realizing that she easily could get arrested at this point and then deported but right, she didn't care.
"I too have lost people. And I've blamed myself as well."
"Wait how did you...
"You don't be become a Senshi for years and not notice these things."
"Wait how you know I'm a .... and how do you not I'm not...."
"Your Henshin Pen is sliding is sliding out of your pocket, it doesn't have the dark colors of a DMS or a Corrupted Senshi."
She immediately grasped her pen and put it in a safer place.
The unknown officer now nodded. "Now we were discussing that you blamed yourself for the loss of your loved ones, correct?"
As Kelly fell to the ground dead. 12-year-old Jonama (Dreama) realized that this was her fault. She had been playing in the abandoned barn - that she knew was unsafe and off-limits and it was she who somehow struck a rock against an old oil drum and started the fire. Kelly and Quinn died saving her and others from the fire she started.
She nodded miserably.
"Yes I see it in your eyes."
"What did you do that was so bad, if I may ask, since you're a police officer?"
He looked her straight in the eyes. "I was reckless and chose to ignore the safety rules on a specific assignment because I was excited about it. Because of that, I was cursed with evil magic and ended destroying almost everything and everyone on my world as well as allies - who had no choice but to destroy me. Thanks to the starseeds of my fallen allies, I was given a second chance and I hope to better this time."
Dreama's jaw dropped in shock. "How... do you deal with that?
The officer considered. "By knowing that our friends and family aren't truly lost to us. We will see them again." And with that he was gone.
Thinking about this comment, and watching the comet, Dreama at last began to heal.
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