A wonderful day of snuggles: Day 238~
Secondary nightime expedition~!
So, most of what we saw was boring. Same as daytime, but darker. Don't care about that. There was one thing though... But I'm not sure if I was imagining things.
First off, the leadup... I decided to look in the Ice Cave, for whatever reason. Dark cave is a dark cave, right? Wrong. There was something unexpected. Maybe two things, even. And the location, the thin, pure ice.
The first thing I noticed, was that a hole in the top if the cave let in light. I hadn't really thought about it during the day, as it floods the cave, but at night... It comes down, in one pure beam. It was beautiful, even moreso than the ice formations during the day. Flecks of snow drifting through it, it looked like a massive column of flowing ice, as the pale moonlight drifted down.
And as it drifted down, so did my gaze. And my breath caught. It was the thin ice.
The light shone through it as if it were water... And it bent, and it widened. Then it hit the first lump of precious metals, scattering dazzling beams of light through the ice, each seemingly frozen in the cold itself. But the light did not stop there, reaching down further, bouncing around the precious metals. It was a kaleidoscope of light, each glimmer pure and stunning.
Then it hit a rare vein of Ruby. and that light, in the very bottom, shone a red that I had only seen twice before, in a very different situation. It was if the Blood Moon hovered in a sea of stars, perfectly replicating the night sky during those ghastly nights.
The sight had me enraptured. Thankfully, Maxwell was distracting Zombies at the cave entrance, even if it meant he couldn't see this. And also thankfully, as much as it resembles the Blood Moon, I felt fine looking at it.
Under all that, I swear I could see a cave below. I will have to take Maxwell tomorrow, to explore. And Pengy, once we see that it's safe.