The Starfall Meadow

What is the Starfall Meadow?

The Starfall Meadow is where shooting stars come down to rest when they are tired. It is a meadow of silver grass that ripples without any wind, under a sky so full of stars that it looks like spilled sugar.

To get there, Vela watched her bedroom ceiling melt into sky. Then a ladder of moonbeams came down for her to climb.

What happened there?

One night, a star fell into the meadow. It had not come down to rest. Somebody had pushed it.

Every star keeps the same spot in the sky that it has kept for a thousand years. And a star can only live in its own place in the sky. If it is not back before the night ends, it goes out forever.

When can you visit?

The Starfall Meadow is only open from nine o’clock to ten o’clock in the night.

Try this tonight

Look up at the night sky, or imagine it. If you were a star, where would your place in the sky be?