6/17/22 Starlight Orbs (Part 1)

 Starlight Orbs (Part 1)

When the sky is dark and stars fly across the sky, people look up, trying to spot a shooting star, ready to make a wish to the flashing light. A tradition practiced for centuries. People know their wish will most likely not be granted, and yet they wish anyway.

Little do they know, a crucial step in this ancient tradition was lost to time. No one really knows how to guarantee their wish to come true. On rare occasions when a star deems a wish worthy, it releases a starlight orb onto the earth. The small balls of pure light rapidly fall to the earth, making them hard to see, invisible to one who doesn’t know what to look for.

For a wish to come true, the wisher must find their starlight orb. They are not always easy to find, the star does not deliver the orb directly to the wisher, simply drops the orb once it hears a worthy wish. Back when the starlight orbs were still common knowledge, people would often spend days searching for their orb once it dropped. 

Once the orb was found, they simply had to grab the little ball of light and crush it, cracking it open like an egg and releasing their granted wish. A magical sight to behold, and only seen by few. 

The stars do not frequently grant wishes, they are very picky with who they choose. Everyone who wished upon stars would always look for their orb to drop, but  very few starlight orbs were ever sent to the earth. Throughout time, people gave up hoping for a starlight orb, knowing how rare the chance would be to get one. 

As more and more people lost hope, the knowledge of the starlight orbs disappeared. For centuries no one has known that they even exist; a worthy wish will come along but no one knows what to look for, and the starlight orb falls to the earth, only to die when it is never found.

The magical orbs of starlight, their memory lost to time, were about to be rediscovered again. A young girl, Lyla Jensen, sits out on her porch as the stars twinkle in the sky. A shooting star catches her eye and silently in her head she makes her wish.


To be continued

6/17/22

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