Asakiyume mita

I saw the aurora. I saw it only with my eyes, not through a camera. It was not cherry pink or brilliant turquoise. It was a mysterious strangeness, a hint of something that made me think I was imagining. And then, as my eyes grew accustomed to the dark, I realized it was really there, weird veils of color, faint and deep, like iridescence on black bird's feathers. I laughed for joy to have all those vibrating, excited electrons overhead, our atmosphere talking to me in a new way about the sun.

There was a helicopter flying low, back and forth across the sky, probably patrolling, or looking for, something on the ground, but it was like it was trying to control or stop the wildness in the sky. "Hey! No! None of that! None of that now!" But the electrons just kept on singing.

ETA: Well I guess I should have said protons, not electrons! Thank you, XKCD, for this lesson in how auroras work!