What these arteries do is pretty much swap skies. One planet is in night, while the other is in day. One artery will suck the night sky from our planet, and pump it into the other, while the other artery sucks the day sky from the other planet, and pumps it into ours. There's a kind of organic lever system that I can reach, exactly half way between the worlds. And by reach I mean journey to. Every twelve hours I it the switch. Well, about two hours before I was supposed to hit the switch to bring night-time to earth, I look up to where the umbilical cord connects to our sky, and I see night seeping in. There's a leak. Like some kind of star-studded darkness billowing out into clear blue day. There's a problem with that, however. Only one sky can be on one world at a time. Watching the night spill into our day, I notice the beginnings of mild earthquakes and thunder and lightning. The earth is getting crushed under the pressure of two skies, while the other world is getting broken into pieces due to the vacuum of space. Neither planet was destroyed, just starting to, well, crack a little. Hours early, I sped along to the switch, and hit it on. The process went ahead, and the rest of night pumped into earth while day restored pressure on the other planet. There was now equilibrium between the two skies, and I had twelve hours to patch the leak. |
