Funny how the light shines in this glade she thought. The trees and the beach look pink and purple. It must be the weather. Then she looked up to where the sun should be, but the star she saw was red, like the sun when you see it through thick clouds on the horizon. But this star was small and high up in the sky. She could tell it wasn’t her sun. You could actually look at it without being blinded.
She tried to remember how she had got here, what had happened to her? All she could think of was the lights in the sky the night before. Not meteors but green flashes, like falling fireworks. Yes, then something had lifted her up and everything had gone dark and silent….
Where am I? Where have I been brought to? she thought, this place is so peaceful, so quiet. Then she realised what was missing, birdsong, insects churring, the everyday sound of traffic… Wherever she was she knew now it was alien. It could not be Earth.
Written in response to Sue Vincent’s Thursday #writephoto prompt here
Mallaband-Brown 
Very mysterious. You don’t realise how much you rely on the background noise to tell you where you are…until it isn’t there…
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Yes, when tranquil edges into sinister..
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Very well written. Where ever it is, it sounds like it might be a nice place to be dropped off..
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Yes, I think exploring a new world doesn’t always have to be scary
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Well done!
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Thanks x
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For reasons totally unknown, the birdsong ceased in our neck of the woods for a few hours a couple of days ago. It was eerie and a bit alarming.
So what you describe here really does ring true.
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That’s interesting. We have a Dawn chorus and then it stops after a couple of hours. I think the birds fly off in search of food (we feed them) then any song is much more random. Sometimes we are serenaded by a pair of blackbirds x
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Yes, one does expect an abatement after the Dawn (or Evening) Chorus. But there is generally still something going on.
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We get birds squabbling and black birds alarm calls
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I hope your birdsong resumes soon x
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It was only a brief muted interlude!
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Good!
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Very nice. Were I imagined the sounds, you have a world without them.
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