As I was standing on the balcony, I could see it coming—an onslaught of light streaking across the sky like countless meteors, each one blazing with a fierce, almost sacred brilliance.

 

They fell all at once, a cascading shower that seemed to tear through the fabric of the night. The world watched on the news, dismissing it as some rare, natural phenomenon—something that happened roughly every 400 years, they said.

 

But we, the ones who knew better, understood the truth: this was no mere coincidence.