Stardust

[twilightpony]

It's the fourth day since the Timber wolves woke up the Apple family. Shortly after sundown today, there were shooting stars in the dusk darkened sky above the zap apple grove. Even though that event is not in The Astronomical Astronomer's Almanac to All Things Astronomy, I was ready and watching through my telescope. It sure looked like a regular meteor shower. The next meteor shower in the almanac isn't due for another three days. Why would flowering zap apples attract meteors? Well the shower was short and the trees should now be laden with unripe fruit. Perhaps the meteors fertilize the flowers somehow. It's all quite strange, but then, they come from the Everfree forest where a lot of the plants and animals are strange.

Comments

[flareblitzfury]

Interesting! That'd be cool!

[borglord]

Perhaps they don't attract meteors. Perhaps they just create a convincing illusion of meteors.

Of course, I can't answer "Why would flowering zap apples create illusory meteors?" any more than I can answer "Why would flowing zap apples attract real meteors?"

[twilightpony]

They look like real shooting stars. It's possible that the trees are generating luminescent pollen packets and firing them into the air. We'd have to catch one. The thing is, shooting stars are the spirits of ponies that died. Or the memories or something that's left after some ponies have died. But the why's and wherefores of this zap apple and meteor association escape me. Perhaps other entities can make shooting stars. Everfree bees? Undead Everfree bees? The Tree only knows.