<strong>Sunset</strong><br/><br/>The girl simply nodded, looking suddenly rather nervous, as if she had no idea how to explain everything.  "I'm Carrie, by the way," she said.  "You don't have to call me 'older sister' if you don't want to.  That's just what they were calling you so that we could meet."  She gestured with her hands, but it didn't seem to help.<br/><br/>"Imagine like...spirits.  In space."  She took some paper and began to draw a large circle, then a smaller one some distance away.  "No, not spirits, it's..."  She took a breath.  "I don't know.  Like the stars.  They live in the light."  Lines were slowly drawn from the large circle to the smaller one.  "The Earth doesn't like the light, you see.  It just eats it up, and absorbs so much of it.  Space is supposed to be empty.  That's what confuses them, I think."<br/><br/>She added a smaller circle yet very close to the medium size circle.  "Unless the moon is full.  Then it can bounce off, and that helps a little bit.  Like it has been lately.  That's how they've been able to reach you and others even when they hide from the light right now.  Because they're confused and scared."