A spaceship is streaking across the sky, lead by a brilliant column of fire as it burns hard to decelerate after having punched through the atmosphere.
You can see the condensation clouds as sonic boom shockwaves shear off the airframe, and know you'll soon hear those rattling blasts. But for a moment, the sky is silent.
You check the time on your phone. Right on schedule. Your ride is here.
[This is an image I've been thinking about all day. Goodnight 💜 ]
@starkatt This also makes me think about how years and years ago @ElectricKeet wrote this track about a mutual friend, where at the end of the track - at the end of this significantly long life full of all sorts of weird stories and adventures - he doesn't *die*, the aliens show up and whisk him elsewhere to have even more weird stories and adventures.
