Lightening and Snow

Lightening

Lightening flashed across the gray, wet horizon.  This brought a roaring thunder so loud and immense that the people in the library jumped out of their seats as they kept their noses hidden in the uneventful pages of their text books.  Roy ran across the room in a fit of anxiety and tripped over an inconveniently placed step-stool.  The people attempted to subdue their laughter but it was all in futility.  Roy turned red.  A nearby spectator found the answer to her question: the brown and purple bruise on Roy's left fore-arm was from a previous event filled with clumsiness and catastrophe.

Snow

Kimi steps inside the crystal palace in search of an answer.  Because she is wearing a heavy winter coat, she immediately begins to perspire.  The crystal palace has the heat cranked up due to the snowstorm.  The windows in the crystal palace show nothing but bitter and glorious white nothingness.  Kimi takes off her mittens as she approaches the nearby jeweler.  She pulls a large crystal stone of great clarity and value out of her messenger bag, hands it to the jeweler and asks, "How much?"