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Prompt - Winter/Snow
Once, Amanda found a world where it snowed diamonds. It would have been more accurate to say that a substance like Earth's diamonds fell in thin flakes like rain, but it didn't sound as nice to say it that way.
It'd been an accident, stumbling across the world. She was trying to improve long-distance movement, use Q's (Q--the one with long red hair) advice, that all space was the same, that leaping to Sol, or traveling to the edge of the universe was no different. She must not have grasped it as well as she thought, because she only made it a few galaxies away from home.
When she first saw it, the sky sparkling like a million stars were settling down from space to the little, uninhabited planet, she'd almost summoned her friends. Not for the value of the diamond-esque flakes, but for the wonderful sight. She wanted to share it with everyone she knew--the wonders that awaited humans once they made it out of the Milky Way.
She realized only a moment before, that the atmosphere of the planet was toxic--corrosive, even. The 'diamonds' were all that were left of everything that once inhabited the world. Tossed up into the sky by its constant winds, and falling once more to the ground in unnatural silence, beautiful, and never to be seen by anyone.
Once, Q (The 'expert' on humanity) told her humanity would never compare to the wonders that the Q could offer. She'd known it was true--humanity was a long way off from walking on a star, or through one--but she'd never believed it until then.
But Q (Still the expert) was wrong about one thing. Never being able to share it wasn't wonderful at all.
Once, Amanda found a world where it snowed diamonds. It would have been more accurate to say that a substance like Earth's diamonds fell in thin flakes like rain, but it didn't sound as nice to say it that way.
It'd been an accident, stumbling across the world. She was trying to improve long-distance movement, use Q's (Q--the one with long red hair) advice, that all space was the same, that leaping to Sol, or traveling to the edge of the universe was no different. She must not have grasped it as well as she thought, because she only made it a few galaxies away from home.
When she first saw it, the sky sparkling like a million stars were settling down from space to the little, uninhabited planet, she'd almost summoned her friends. Not for the value of the diamond-esque flakes, but for the wonderful sight. She wanted to share it with everyone she knew--the wonders that awaited humans once they made it out of the Milky Way.
She realized only a moment before, that the atmosphere of the planet was toxic--corrosive, even. The 'diamonds' were all that were left of everything that once inhabited the world. Tossed up into the sky by its constant winds, and falling once more to the ground in unnatural silence, beautiful, and never to be seen by anyone.
Once, Q (The 'expert' on humanity) told her humanity would never compare to the wonders that the Q could offer. She'd known it was true--humanity was a long way off from walking on a star, or through one--but she'd never believed it until then.
But Q (Still the expert) was wrong about one thing. Never being able to share it wasn't wonderful at all.