Many thanks to my betas, Frannie and Angela, and all the lovely readers who have been with 'Wreckage' so far.
'The universe wove you from a constellation just so atom, every fiber in you comes from a different star.'
– Nikita Gill
He left her near the door, moving to the farthest corner of the room.
"Bella, I want to show you something. Will you please allow me to switch off the lights?"
Chariness bled into her at his request. And it set something in him too, unleashing a sickly nebula of haunting ache.
Hope snuffed by her loaded silence, he accepted defeat. "I'll just …"
"Okay." His head jerked up in surprise.
And then triggered the Heaven's release.
From a velvet swathe of deepest indigo, appeared hundreds of stars around a gleaming ball of ivory. In a frozen spiral of mauve, they manifested into a graceful twirl of the Universe.
A water screen mounted as the floor-to-ceiling window reflected the palest tones of bluish-silver. The sublime light softened the inky black, illuminating the backdrop with a cosmic glow.
Suddenly it changed to chartreuse.
A sharp puff of air left her as night turned into day, dousing their world with a dusty gold.
Her eyes traveled from the galactic mural on the ceiling to the sleet of water curtaining the window. Their brightness far outshone the constellations he had put together.
"Now you don't have to be scared," Edward murmured as if auguring the future.
"It won't get dark ... ever."
AN: You can google search 'Stella's murals' to see the glow-in-dark murals on Bella's ceiling. Her galactic ones are especially gorgeous. I saw the entire set up of water screen and the murals in a home décor magazine and thought it would make a unique gift.
2. I've entered one of my short stories (a variation of one of the chapters of Wreckage) in a competition, and it got shortlisted. The winner will be decided by public vote, and I'll be really grateful if you guys will vote for me (if you like the fic, of course). Here is the link:
w w w dot adhocfiction dot com
The stories are listed in their 'Read' section and mine is 56th in the list, titled 'High and Low'.