It was the rarest of rare occasions.
A thunderstorm was coming through Twilight Town, bringing rain and heat to the peaceful world. Everything was sticky and humid and smelled of fresh, sweet moisture, taunting the townsfolk with its hovering presence.
Ice cream seemed to melt faster than usual. Sweat fell from every pore of every being's body. And the sun was covered up by ominous grey clouds that nullified any chance of good shade. Everything was shade.
So the three teens escaped to the Clocktower, where the second hand above them counted away the time of the storm's arrival. From their high vantage point, Shayla, Michael, and Mir could see the lightning flashing from afar and begin to hear distant thunder, which made the Blitzball player more tense with every second.
Shayla so longed to draw the ferocity of the storm, but she dared not do it from anything but memory safe under the cover of her own roof, for the rain would wash away her picture for sure.
Michael just longed for the humidity to be over, so that he could get some comfort from the heat and be able to return home and put his shirt back on. He could barely breathe wearing it, and he wondered how the girls managed. There was always a way, he supposed.
The streak of lightning that seemed to split the sky with white-hot heat was the prelude to the booming thunder that could be felt in the chests of the youths, Mir abandoning her not-so-frozen treat and clinging to Michael's arm, the noise startling her.
But soon, both were followed by sweet satisfaction.
Rain, heavy and hard, fell upon the world and its children, soaked up by the skin of those who were too young to have felt it before, and replenishing them. It was a different and much-welcome feel than that of the ever-beating sunshine.
And quickly as it came, it left, replaced by parting clouds and leaving three sopping wet teens with heavy, water-laden clothing to prove that the brief storm wasn't just a dream.
Now they, who had lived off of purified sea-water for all of their fourteen years, knew what it was like to sit under the cover of rain.
