[ WP ] The sun has just risen for the first time in 14 years

**Burning Sky** 
 
 “ Burning sky, the sky is burning! ” I yelled as I rushed back into an underground cave we lived in. It was a magnificent city below the ground, carved into rock by sheer will to survive years before I was born and its walls were the only thing I saw before I could climb the walls and escape my mother ’ s watchful gaze. I had been playing outside, learning the tricks so I could one day escape the boring cave and venture into the ice pillars that stood just out of my reach but then something appeared. The sky turned into the colour of fire and approach me faster than I could think it could move. Of course I turned around immediately and rushed back inside trying to reach my family and warn as many as I could of the burning sky. I had seen what fire can do, uncontrolled fire could consume a harvest and put all of us in danger, and now the whole sky was on fire. I passed our gardeners, keepers of our crops and the dullest people around, but I didn ’ t focus on them as I tried to reach my family before being consumed by the sky. 
 
 I raised quite a stir with my run through the city. My father came out to meet me as I yelled for him and immediately jumped to his arms which were open and ready. “ What is wrong, my boy? ” 
 
 “ The sky, ” I panted, “ the sky is on fire ”. My father ’ s eyes widened and he lowered me onto the ground, lowering himself to my level, I wasn ’ t as tall as many of the others my age so he had to dip quite low. 
 
 “ What did it look like? ” he asked, seemingly undisturbed by the news I had just brought. “ Did it look beautiful, the brightest of fires? ” 
 
 “ Yes, it could be beautiful but it ’ s approaching and we ’ ll all be consumed by it! ” I cried into him as he brought me closer to a hug. 
 
 “ No, my son, do you see the others run away, or are they radiating with excitement? ” I looked around and could see almost the whole city moving in mass towards the cave ’ s opening. Tears still flowing from my scared eyes I looked to my father and asked: “ Where are they going, are they not afraid of death? ” 
 
 “ It is not death that is coming, son, it is life. ” He lifted me back up to his arms and I could finally see mother behind him. She approached me and cupped my face into her hands, smiling softly at me. “ Don ’ t worry, honey, you ’ ll see the most beautiful sight soon, and you ’ ll see the world as our ancestors saw it. ” 
 
 I couldn ’ t understand what she meant by that but I didn ’ t say anything as my father carried me on his shoulder. The whole city seemingly had gathered outside, leaving the farms and aqueducts unattended. I looked at my father ’ s face and could see tears flowing out of his eyes and my mother leaning against his shoulder and holding my hand softly. Then I looked at the crowd around me and followed their smiling gazes to the fire in the sky. It had grown larger, burning brighter than before and now the stars that filled the sky were covered with a blue and orange curtain. I stared in awe and fright as a ball of fire that burned my eyes rose in the horizon. I could feel the warmth immediately, my clothes seemed to suffocate me and all I could see was a purple spot as I closed my eyes. “ Beautiful ” I heard all around me and I opened my eyes once more. The snow that I could barely see before glistened in front of me for as far as I could see and the pillars of ice in the distance seemed so much more real to me now than ever before. 

