Well, the weather outside is frightful

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Characters: Everyone!
Date: Midnight the 16th of December
Summary: The inhabitants of the Garden get their reward for making out beneath the mistletoe, in the form of a lights show in the sky.
Warnings: N/A

In the dead of night, the Garden is dead silent. Without the sound of the city or urban life, only the noises of nature pervade the air. Crickets. Rustling leaves. The occasional footsteps of an animal.

However, tonight, at midnight, the silence is broken by a loud pealing of bells, rousing the people of the garden from their sleep. The bells continue ringing for nearly half a minute before falling silent. For a moment, the peacefulness of night returns to the Gardens.

Then the enormous mistletoe plant begins glowing, with a brilliant white light bright enough to be seen from all corners of the Garden. It fizzes, shooting off heatless sparks, and then bursts, shooting up into the sky and breaking into pieces of glowing light, forming various shapes. Above the Orchard, a series of hearts form, burst like fireworks, and reform. Over the Necessities, nymphs made of sparkling light kiss and dance through the sky, winking down at the people below. Over the ruins, flowers of multicolored light pop into existence and disperse. And above the Viridian Pavilion, fiery red phoenixes swoop through the air, burn out dramatically, and are reborn in a new cascade of light.

The show will continue until morning. Fortunately, now that the mistletoe's light has dispersed, it's not so bright that it should keep people awake.

Comments

[revolutionized]

"I'm sure you'll be a lot of help." Utena returns her attention to the sky. "I bet we'll find a way for everyone to pitch in. Say, maybe we can paint it...unless the magic dirt does that already. Oh, and we'd have to have a place to store it..."

[heartovertime]

"If it isn't, it'll be fun to paint it, won't it?" It may be more convenient if it's magically painted, but it's just like relying on the birds for dinner instead of making it themselves. It's not like their lives are so jam packed as it was on Earth that there isn't time to do things like that.

"Where do you think would be a good place?" Homura asks, dividing her attention between the sky and Utena. "Is there any nice hill you can think of? Maybe we could make a shed or something near there."

[revolutionized]

"I think so." She's already considering the color they might use...and maybe they can give it a cool design, like lightning bolts.

Utena glances around and frowns, considering this. "I don't know. There might be one close to where I stay. Have you seen a hill in the Necessities at all?"

[heartovertime]

Tilting her head, Homura contemplates this. "I haven't really thought about it, but I think there are some around." She probably misses them any time she goes past, since she hasn't exactly had any use for them. "Maybe not any big ones though. We might have to look further out than that, unless little hills are better."

[revolutionized]

"We should look for 'em." Her smile now is bright, more like it usually is. "We'll all keep a lookout, you and me and Madoka-chan. And if one of us finds one, we'll use the Vine to tell the others. Then we can all go sledding together."

[heartovertime]

"That sounds wonderful." Homura smiles widely back to Utena. "I'll be sure to tell Madoka too."

Recalling that she had headed out to find her girlfriend in the first place, Homura turns her eyes back towards the pathway briefly before looking to Utena again. "I should probably go see if I can find her," she adds a bit later. Not that looking up at the fireworks and talking with Utena is unpleasant at all, but it seems like it would be nice to be able to share this experience with Madoka too.

[revolutionized]

Utena nods in a distracted sort of way, but she has the presence of mind to smile again and give Homura a cheery wave. "All right. I'll see you later. It was nice talking to you!"