Reclaiming Earth
Rael felt the cold grass under his shins as he knelt by the pond. There were a few stars still out. The Eastern sky was beginning to change from red to silver, and he had come out into the garden to get the early light into his eyes. Goosebumps rose on his bare torso as a breeze caressed the mountainside. The flowers he had planted were beginning to bloom as spring began to give way to summer, and they now opened one by one as the dawn approached.