The night sky was clear and filled with stars when Veronica walked through the fields. A usual walk past the farm fields to see if everything was alright.

While she was walking to check if all the animals had been locked up and the fields were good, she had trouble keeping her eyes off the stars that shone bright above her.

She put her long brown hair in a ponytail with some ribbons she had in her pocket while trying to get the sweat off her face from the long day at work.

Veronica lived with her mum and dad at a farm on the planet Borner which was known for its rich nature to farm all kinds of different fruits and vegetables. Their farm was known for their famous Borner beans. A local bean that would satisfy the eater for a whole meal with just one bite. 

Her father and his father were owners of this farm and they harvested the beans, to sell them to travelers that would visit the planet Borner.

Often there would be travelers from long trips at their local market where their farm stood near and when they went there to sell their beans, she would often ask the travelers on what kind of planets they had been.

She had heard great stories about huge cities, big deserts, cold planets and a deep dark space that all would lead to the center of the universe.

Often Veronica tried to picture what the planets would look like depending on how the travelers described them but she couldn't really picture it because she had never left her home. Her room was hanging full with pictures she would draw in hopes of uncovering how these strange worlds for her would look like.

When Veronica had checked everything and she walked back to their house, she looked up to the stars. She would imagine the travelers she had met to be up there, flying through space in their spaceships and taking on great adventures to tell tales about to teenagers like her.

She walked around the farm and like every night, she could tell her parents for sure that everything was fine. The animals were looked up and nothing was out of the ordinary. The fields looked like they did every night. Just fine.

A little breeze came by and she heard the leaves on the trees surrounding the farm move in the wind. A breeze was normal this time of year but in a few seconds, the breeze took on and became harder. The sudden change of pace and strength of the wind was something that Veronica didn’t see every night.  She felt the chills going through her body and before she decided to run it back. When her first steps were set, a loud bang could be heard from the sky.

She looked up to the stars who were there like they were every night but something was new. 

Something was happening in the sky that she hadn't seen before.

Right above her, in between the stars was a great white light that was flickering. It hurted her eyes but she tried to keep watching.

She imagined the bang she heard must have been from the light entering the atmosphere as it was moving and getting bigger by the second. Soon it was too bright to look at and Veronica tried to run towards the house by remembering which way it was.

Veronica squeezed her eyes and sometimes tried to open them to see. Flashes of the path before her were shown and she guessed the house was near.

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'Mom, dad. Watch out for the light!' she screamed while she was running to the house, hoping she would reach it soon with her loss of clear sight.

When she didn’t get a response, Veronica imagined she was still too far away. She kept running as fast as she could towards the direction of which she thought was the house but a feeling made her think she wouldn’t make it.

Slowly she tried to open her eyes again, only to see that the ground around her began to lighten up, which gave her the idea that the light was coming closer and soon would reach the planet.

Thinking she would face her end, Veronica stopped running and started to embrace the thought that whatever was coming from the sky, would hit her and the planet. She squeezed her eyes, preparing for a hit but it never came. Instead, she would notice that the brightness took off.

Slowly she opened her eyes, noticing the light was still bright but it had moved. It was right in front of her and when she realized this, the light hit the ground between her and her house which was not as far as she had thought.

The ground shook from the impact and Veronica was swept away to land in a little field of grass a few meters behind her. The trembling in the ground lasted for a few seconds but soon after that faded.

While Veronica’s arms and legs were scratched from her fall onto the ground, she didn't pay attention to it and tried to stand up as fast as she could. Her legs were trembling when she tried to get up but her curiosity was much bigger than the trembling in her legs.

The light had hit the ground on the path towards home and it had created a big hole in the ground. Right in the middle of the path, it took some space from the fields next to it but there was no denying it. A giant hole was created by whatever that light was that had hit the ground.

She looked around quickly to see how much damage the hit could have brought with it beside the hole but the rest of the farm still looked intact. Some animals screaming of the impact was something she could understand. She barely could stand and her heart beated heavy from the thought what could have hit them.

She heard the backdoor of the house open and the voice of her father screaming.

'Veronica, what is happening here?' She heard her father scream those words but she didn't pay much attention to it. If she was fine, then her parents should also be fine. What really took her interest was the big hole that was created in front of her. Smoke came from the hole, as if something was burning at the bottom of it. 

While she slowly walked towards it, she heard footsteps coming towards her.

She gazed at the hole but her eyes could see the movement coming from the house. Her father must have grabbed his rifle and ran towards her.

The light that was coming from the sky was still faintly present, coming from the hole. It didn’t last long before the light dimmed and vanished, leaving nothing more than the smoke coming out of the hole.

She was a few meters away from the hole and with the light gone, she saw her father approaching the hole, looking worried and confused. His eyes moved from her to the hole and back.

'What is this?' she heard him ask with confusion but she did not respond. 

Knowing her father was there, her eyes were fixed on the hole that had swept a part of the path away.

Veronica was almost at the edge, feeling the trembling of fear getting bigger. Why was she so curious? A question she could not answer because she already had reached the edge.

Her father grabbed a light from his pocket that he had taken with him and clicked it on, shining his light towards Veronica.

While they both stood next to the edge, he began to point the light down the hole, searching for whatever was down there.

'Easy Veronica, we don't know what's in there,' her father said, not looking at his daughter but his eyes staring down the hole.

Veronica could feel the edge underneath her booth as some dirt crumbled down as her father stood on the other side, shining his light down the hole.

What they saw there made Veronica gasp for air, as she couldn't comprehend what she saw. Her father kept quiet, knowing what he was seeing.

At the bottom of the hole, where the light had come from that now had faded, layed the body of a young unconscious boy.