Look closer.
Blue-white seams form a luminous shell around dark cells.
Watch the brightness change along the shell. Light seems to press against it from within.
A story from the frontier · Lore draft
The Captive Light
The light seemed to be looking for a way out. It crossed the inside of the shell, vanished behind a dark panel, and returned somewhere else. The survey log called it an optical effect. The crew gave it a name anyway.
