Thread:VineyTheVine/@comment-34182043-20190722142024

Meteor showers are rarely visible in the modern sect - or at least not in the parts of it that are very intent on living up to the 'modern' bit, but there’s still a particular, rural coastal town that gives full view of it, one that’s rather prone towards attracting them.

A jetty emerging from a beach is where the town gathered to see them, but this one’s set in the depths of the night, so there’s no one to see - perhaps a few stragglers, but they’re too far to take notice of you.

One particularly friendly shooting star, let it be termed, comes closer and closer at a frightening speed -- just as one would be in the process of backing away, it reroutes casually and runs itself into the beach.

But.

There is no meteor, on closer look, none at all. Just a particularly tall person muttering ‘oh my, oh my,’ under their breath. They don’t seem to take notice of you, and the various inhabitants of the town watching the shower with the same investment of someone stepping on a dry leaf - fun, of course, but nothing especially out of the ordinary - don’t take notice of them, either.

Approach this tall, anxious-looking shooting star? 