The ground quaked in rumbling waves as the earth yawned open in rigid gashes. Panic settled deep in the bosom of my chest and I turned to run home. Racing thoughts flooded my mind and it was through the trembling that I hastened across the streets. Pushing passed people and crumbling buildings there was nothing I could do to quench the fear inside. Dust burned my nostrils and screams filled my ears, but hope came quickly with the sight of...

    My hair whipped around me in flickering streaks of gold like that of the roaring grasslands that surrounded me. When I looked up to the moonless night I gasped. It had been too long since I'd been able to go out to see this, the swirling of colors that dipped in and out of the darkness through the seasons. To see the beautiful blue lighted stars that spread their wings of light to this distant place.
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