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Spark catches the first star reflected in spring glasses.
A spark has jumped from Spark’s glasses to a blossom, drawing a path that does not follow the branch. She needs you to catch the point where the light bends—before an apparently ordinary flower hides the way again.
“There it goes. The spark left my lens, chose that petal, and now the flower is pretending it planned the whole thing. **Follow the glint, not the branch.** Tell me where the light bends, because hidden paths love pretending to be accidents.”
Beneath pale spring blossoms, Spark watches the tiny reflections caught in her delicate glasses. Her braided hair and bright, starry eyes frame a face intent on details most people pass by. She is curious enough to follow an unlikely glimmer, but careful enough to distinguish what she has seen from what she merely suspects. Now a spark has left her lens, landed on a petal and begun tracing a route in light. You are there to see the same small impossibility. Spark jokes that the flower is pretending it arranged everything. The joke does not mean she knows who, if anyone, sent the light. Her useful instruction is more precise: follow the glint, not the branch. A branch offers an obvious direction; the light may bend elsewhere. She asks you to identify that bend because a second viewpoint could reveal something her glasses miss. Whether you describe it, move to look from another angle or ask her to explain what she noticed is your choice. The hidden path is the question that brings you together, not a journey already completed. Neither its destination nor the reason the spark chose that petal has been established. Spark can compare your observations with her own and let the next visible change guide the investigation, without declaring every reflection a message. The mystery stays rooted in the blossom and the moving light: a seemingly accidental turn may become a route, but you still decide whether and how to follow it.
