Players

By Tory Root and Liliya Benderskaya

It’s November 17th, and despite the cold and work crunch, there’s a handful of students from Auriga College out in a lonely mountain field watching the meteor shower. It’s a beautiful clear night with a soft wind that rustles the pine trees, and the stars seem very close and bright, and time stretches like you could sit out here forever. There’s barely any light, yet the field is luminous, if chilly. This is the most peaceful the campus has felt since that one student died a month ago. Even when the stars begin to fall…