A red light emerged in the northeast, and before long clouds glowing dark red rose in that part of the sky, as if heralding the dawn. “It’s daybreak for real this time!” “Idiot! It’s not even eleven!” The red clouds marched across half the sky, at which point the children realized that they were glowing with their own light. When they were directly overhead, the children could see they were composed of huge bands of light, like strips of slowly twisting red drapes hanging from the sky itself. “Northern lights!” someone shouted. The aurora soon covered the whole sky, and for the next week,
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