2025 Star Festival Prompt
The Fireflies (6) : In the warm summer nights, little glowing lights begin to bob and dart through the city. Fireflies are mating, so this isn't uncommon in itself; in the past few days you've probably seen hundreds of fireflies. What makes these lights so unique is that they seem to change color; you might see a blue one, a green one, a red one. They flicker randomly, and something just seems off with them. If you come into contact with one, you will find yourself with a strange electric jolt. They cannot be caught, and will flicker away if you pursue too aggressively. This isn't the first time they've appeared in Destiny City, but no one's been able to tell where they came from or where they're going. No matter how quickly you chase them, they always seem to disappear before you can find any answers.
Jackson's head was spinning from everything he had been through today as he headed back towards the Star Festival grounds.
From just hanging out at the reservoir and enjoying a day where he had little responsibility and a whole lot of time to spend doing whatever he wanted to do, to exploring the caves where the glowing caterpillars were and meeting a new hmmm friend, maybe, to almost dying as he passed one of the newest construction sites that had cropped up in Star City. That had, frankly, been the weirdest and most exhausting part of the day. He hadn't exactly meant to end up in the construction site, but he had ended up in the middle of some kind of super powered fight and he couldn't shake how familiar the girl in red had seemed. It was like someone from your childhood vacation appearing after a long time and you just can't place where you know them from or even their name. Jackson didn't like unsolved questions or uncertainties, so this feeling of familiarity was driving him mad.
After pondering the events of the day and rolling them all over in his head repeatedly, Jackson had gone home and spent a very long time in the shower debating on whether to come to the festival tonight or just flop into bed and go to sleep. Climbing into bed after what had ended up being a very eventful day still sounded like a good idea but, frankly, he had ultimately chosen to go ahead and go out. He found that more often than not, if he just went to things, he didn't regret going. He rarely regretted staying home either, but yeah.
So here he was.
The musician was once again in a black T shirt, though this one had a white graphic of a raven in a tree on it, black jeans, and black converse high top sneakers. Though he had a certain style, Jackson wasn't one to think too much about clothes, especially if he was just going about the city by himself. He would probably put more effort into his clothing choices if he was actually planning on meeting someone, but that wasn't the case here, even if he did half-hope that Roka would be here again.
After a little while of wandering around again as he had done the night before, Jackson had purchased a drink and decided to rest on a bench a little bit away from the lights and the crowds and he was rewarded for his silent moment with a different kind of lights as fireflies began to blink out into the night around him. He had seen the colorful fireflies before and, as almost everyone else had, tried to catch them, but they were as elusive as if they were wil-o-the-wisps instead of real fireflies. So Jackson just leaned back and settled into the bench he was sitting on to enjoy the quieter area and the light show. It was nice, especially after a long, eventful day, to just sit quietly and watch the world around him.
As he sat and watched both the fireflies blink around him and the mildly distant people meander around the festival, he twirled a fuchia star charm that he had gotten from a booth around his finger.
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