☄ fourth meteor

[sapanwood]

... I had never seen the moon before.

When I took this picture, three weeks ago, it was the first time I ever saw it. I didn't think it would be so bright! We had pictures from before it disappeared, but to see the glow with your own eyes...

It's hard for me to describe. Beautiful, amazing, breathtaking-

Thirteen years ago was when the moon disappeared with all the stars. The stars came back, but they were all a fabrication. I've always wondered what makes the fake stars different from the real ones. Maybe they were brighter? There must have been a lot more in the sky, and they didn't fall as often. I haven't even seen one fall since I've come here...

The day they vanished was when the Gates appeared. The one in Brazil was named "Heaven's Gate" and the one in Tokyo was called "Hell's Gate." But they're not really gates- that's just a nickname. They are areas which suddenly became inaccessible; everything around them was destroyed and weird phenomena began to occur within their limits.

In a single night, everything changed for people all over the world. And everything is still changing. There was a huge war where countries fought for control over the Gates. Papa said part of the reason was because of the abnormal substances inside of them... and because of the knowledge that can be gained from studying them. But the truth is that no one really understands the Gates yet, no one understands why the stars disappeared, why all the satellites suddenly vanished, why the moon went away...

They say "You can retrieve what you lost from the Gate." I've always wondered what that meant.

[ooc: Picture by this talented photographer. ♥ ]

Comments

[sapanwood.livejournal.com]

All of it happened the year before I was born.

...I- I guess my version of earth is really strange, huh?

[thenormalsquint]

Admittedly, yes. I lived in Brazil for a while and never heard of a gate anything. And we had the moon. How does somebody make fake stars anyway? Didn't anybody ask where the moon went?

[sapanwood.livejournal.com]

They're still trying to figure that out, or maybe they won't tell us why... It was only two years ago that they stopped hiding the Gates from people.

Maybe it was aliens.

[thenormalsquint]

Well, you never know what kind of stuff lives on Pluto that had incentive to steal the moon after their own place got disowned as a planet. Wow. I sound like Hodgins.

Ignore I just said that.

You take really beautiful pictures. How long have you been into photography?

[sapanwood.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a story out of a science fiction book. I bet they're green with an antennae too.

Only a few years-- My mother is a photographer, so I really wanted to try it out... and then I fell in love with it!

[thenormalsquint]

Or polka dotted.

You're pretty good for somebody who's only been doing it for a few years. You're talented.

[sapanwood.livejournal.com]

I- It's only because I get a lot of practice! I'm always taking pictures whenever I can- even when I'm hanging out with my friends.

...But they don't like it when I take pictures of them eating.

[thenormalsquint]

Well, would you?

Though, if you wait until the fork is in their mouth, they can't protest too much.

[sapanwood.livejournal.com]

I made sure they were good pictures!