[ WP ] For the first time in a hundred years , night fell on the Land of Two Suns .

Darkness bled across the land. Some quaked in terror. Some hid. Some stood in the shadows and cried to the skies. Most celebrated the amazing event that had not been seen since their grandparents were in swaddling clothes. Parties abounded and youngsters dared themselves to all sorts of crazy feats in the dark. Some had practiced with blind folds to see if they could cope but most just revelled in the weirdness of it all. With two suns pouring light into every nook a full night only happened once in a century and would not occur again in the lifetime of anyone watching the event. 
 
 “ What are those things? ” The cluster of teens looked up at the sky and pointed. Tiny lights sprinkled the blackness. They gasped in wonder. 
 
 “ They are so beautiful. ” 
 
 “ Wow, that is the most gorgeous thing I have ever seen. ” 
 
 “ Aren ’ t they the things Crazy Allie always draws? ” 
 
 “ What does she call them? ” 
 
 “ Stars. ” 
 
 “ Hey where is Crazy Allie? ” 
 
 Someone shrugged but it went unnoticed in the dark. 
 
 “ How did she know about stars? ” 
 
 “ No idea, but she is always drawing them. ” 
 
 “ She ’ s been talking about this for months. She ’ s probably on top of the highest building to get the best view. ” 
 
 “ Crazy Allie was on to something. Wow. I wouldn ’ t have missed this for anything. ” 
 
 They all clustered around their science teacher who arrived at their position using a hand held light to find his footing. 
 
 “ Hey professor, what are stars? ” 
 
 “ Yeah, how come we can ’ t see them any other time? ” 
 
 “ Allie could tell you all about them. Where is she by the way? ” 
 
 “ None of us have seen her today. We figured she was getting a good vantage point. ” 
 
 “ Stop talking you lot, just look up while it lasts. ” 
 
 “ Will my phone film without light? ” 
 
 The teens jostled for space and craned their necks to see all of the once in a century night. The watched the light flow back onto the world as if a giant glowing curtain were being drawn across the land. When they were fully bathed in light again they laughed in release. 
 
 “ In-cred-ible! ” 
 
 “ I will see you all tomorrow and you can tell me everything you know about stars in an essay due next class. ” The professor laughed at the half-hearted groans and headed back to the school building. He felt buoyed by a sense of being part of an historic moment and he smiled as he put his key card in the lock of the upper access to the building. The lesser sun bathed everything in a soft yellow glow which would give way to the greater sun and its cold white, in just a few hours. He wished he could enjoy the last few hours of the gold but he had to get some work done before he headed home to keep out of the greater sunlight. Heading down to the underground classrooms he reached his classroom but the lock mechanism seemed to be sealed with some sticky substance. 
 
 “ Is there someone in maintenance? Someone has tampered with the door pad. Yes I can wait but I do need to finish some papers before Greater sunlight. ” 
 
 The wait was short and the worker sprayed the lock with an astringent liquid. 
 
 “ Kids! Doesn ’ t matter where they ’ re from or when, they all get up to some kind of pranks. They must have done it after their last class. Lucky the night happened on the weekend. I will have this cleared in a jiffy professor. ” 
 
 They stepped through the open door and stopped on the thresh-hold. 
 
 Every surface of the room was covered in stars. 
 
 Thousands of them. 
 
 Cut out stars, painted stars, marker pen stars, crayons, ink, blood. 
 
 The girl named Crazy Allie, slumped on a seat in the middle of the room. 
 
 The girl and the chair created an island in the pool of blood surrounding her. 
 
 It formed a multi-pointed star. 
 

