The dark sky.A hundred million stars.More stars than Ive ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they dont show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.Wind whistles through the trees nearby. Birdsong weaves in and out of the sound.The hybrids emerge from the communication building, heads tilted to the sky.And then we see the end.Godspeeds engine was nuclear; who knows what fueled the biological weapons. But they explode together. In space, they dont make the familiar mushroom cloud. They dont make the boom! of an exploding bomb.There is, against the dark sky, a brief flash of light. It is filled with colors, like a nebula or the aurora borealis, bursting like a popped bubble.Nothing elseno sound of an explosion, no tremors in the earth, no smell of smoke. Not here, on the surface of the planet.Nothing else to signify Elders death.Just light.And then its gone.And then hes gone.
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About Beth Revis, Shades of Earth
Beth Revis, Shades of Earth.
Themes
- Death — Contemplations on mortality, loss, and the legacy we leave