REI Co-op Studios You're in the desert. You can smell it. You can't see anything, but you smell desert. Night desert, that dusty cooling smell.

You reach up and try to touch your eyes.

And you find that you're wearing glasses.

When you take them off you you realize they must have

been dark glasses because now you can see some stars. Stars that's all. And why would you

be wearing dark glasses at night standing in the middle of the desert?

You blink and you try hard to remember what you're doing here.

And then you see something. You begin to see something. Light and darkness all in a pattern, all in a row, like a row of skulls? No, no, the light keeps rising all the time, rising quickly

from somewhere behind you. It's already bright enough now that you can see that what

you're looking at is a row of buildings.

The colorful Main Street of an old western town, but a strange flat, forlorn looking town vacant doorways black lightless windows

The row of building sits at the foot of a barren desert mountain looking out across a flat and lifeless plain. You're standing out on that

plane and the light keeps rising behind you. Strange light, it's very bright now.

Suddenly bright like the sun has skipped dawn and jumped right up into the

edge of the sky, getting brighter and brighter and brighter.

But this light is emptier than sunlight somehow, flatter.

You see your own shadow etched long and stark across the sand, stretching out toward those empty

eerie buildings.

You turn around to look at the light and...

That's so beautiful. You can't believe how beautiful it is. You know right away what must be causing it. You've seen films of this before, but nothing

you've ever seen comes close to capturing what it really looks like. A rainbow sun,

a half orb swirling rapidly up and down the scales of every color imaginable.

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