Crystal Planet
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:15 am
It calls them all, this jewel in the great darkness, shining in all wavelengths.
They approach slowly, mesmerized by her beauty, flying their crafts around her. Again and again they search in vain for some sort of landing zone, some place to get out and stretch their imagination with this wonder. Closer and closer, until they realize ... there is no substance, no hard terra, ... only light.
So, ... eventually they venture inward. What wonder! The surface only hints at what lies within. In every direction, with every turn a new vista presents itself.
Time passes unnoticed with the awe. A few, the pragmatic ones, eventually break the spell and flee her siren embrace, orbiting beacons once they are free, warning their fellows of the trap below. The rest, the romantics, the sentimental, are blissfully doomed to forever cruise her interior ... searching ... towards the light ... the light ....
They approach slowly, mesmerized by her beauty, flying their crafts around her. Again and again they search in vain for some sort of landing zone, some place to get out and stretch their imagination with this wonder. Closer and closer, until they realize ... there is no substance, no hard terra, ... only light.
So, ... eventually they venture inward. What wonder! The surface only hints at what lies within. In every direction, with every turn a new vista presents itself.
Time passes unnoticed with the awe. A few, the pragmatic ones, eventually break the spell and flee her siren embrace, orbiting beacons once they are free, warning their fellows of the trap below. The rest, the romantics, the sentimental, are blissfully doomed to forever cruise her interior ... searching ... towards the light ... the light ....