Journey With the Comet: Beautiful Dreamer by Dana Wayne Haley

Author:Dana Wayne Haley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2021-05-28T12:26:25+00:00

Chapter 30

Haley’s Comet

When Leona awoke from her hypnotic sleep, in what seemed like no time at all, the little girl looked around, expecting to be on the back porch of her home. Instead she was on what appeared to be a large, smooth, shiny-black rock. The rock was surrounded by the colorful, nearly transparent mist, and it was flying through the sky at lightning speed, making a soft whooshing sound as it overtook and passed other heavenly objects, many nearly as colorful as the one Leona rode. Off in the distance Leona could see the Moon getting smaller and smaller in front of her; at least, that’s what she thought. But finally it occurred to her that it wasn’t the Moon she was seeing after all, but the Earth. The Earth as no one had ever seen it, and would not see it until years later when space-travel endowed others with the amazing gift only Leona now possessed: the gift of viewing the magnificent round ball she called home, so splendidly painted a soft blue and white, floating peacefully in the dark heaven. And despite its seemingly growing smaller and smaller with the passing of time, it was huge, this magnificent Earth, maybe five times larger than her body.

Suddenly, Leona realized that the heavenly rock that she was hurtling through the heavens on could not possibly be a star, because a star’s surface was gaseous and would be much too hot to stand on; indeed she would have been burned to a crisp by now. As Leona pondered the curious object she was riding, something inside of her said, in an almost silent whisper:

“This is your comet, Leona.”

“But how can this be a comet?” she wondered. “Miss Hutchinson said a comet is made mostly of ice, dust and gas; not rock. This should be an asteroid; not a comet.”

Then, upon seeing the colorful, alluring glow emanating from it, she thought: “But this isn’t a rock either. Rocks don’t change color and glow like this. And Miss Hutchinson did say that the Sun can make comets glow. So I guess this could be a comet after all. But it must be a very special comet.”

Then she heard her inner voice once again say, more loudly this time and with much more authority:

“This is your comet, Leona.”

After accepting the wisdom of her inner voice, the little girl’s eyes lit up and a huge smile appeared on her face.

“If this is really my comet, then I’m gonna name it Haley’s Comet,” she said.

After Leona’s excitement waned, her attention returned again to the Earth. In doing so, it wasn’t long before she discovered that this mysterious comet she found herself riding seemed to give her untold magical powers. When she unconsciously wished for a closer look at the beautiful planet she had somehow just departed, it happened. Magically her eyes were able to zoom in on any portion of the Earth she wanted to. And it occurred to her that if she wanted to

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