RJ's Arc

Chapter 4 of 7

RJ stepped down from the hall and walked into the open grass. The bubble was gone. The sky held nothing but light. Christopher walked beside him, quiet now, his voice spent. They stopped at a small arched bridge near the field's edge. Vines wound around its frame. A soft glowing orb sat on a stone beside it, humming faint echoes into the still air. RJ rested his hands on the rail. "Will we ever know?" he asked. "If it reached anyone. If the universe heard it." Christopher leaned against the post. He shrugged. "No way to tell." RJ waited for more. None came. He looked up at the empty sky and felt the answer settle in his chest. The song was gone. He would never know where it landed. He let his hands drop from the rail and stood with that, because there was nothing else to do.