Winter Bingo 2011/2012, Card One

[butterflyboy]

That time of year again!

lines	spoon	casanova	dreaming of a white Christmas	glowing
icy roads	tango	slippery	drummer	toast
by the fire	drunk	Author's Choice: mirror	hay	commercial
young	ghost of Christmas past	hooks	melt	ice princess
feast	Northern Lights	commitment	aunt	cozy

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Northern Lights: Light Up The Sky

[8butterflyboy8.livejournal.com]

Time Period: Vague present (before the Queen strikes, anyway)
Notes: The instant I saw this prompt, I knew I wanted to write something about the night sky one sees in the Tundraful level of "Alice: Madness Returns." It's absolutely gorgeous and fits the prompt perfectly.
It's also exceedingly hard to put into words, as I soon discovered. It took me days to get this into a form I liked even a little. Do yourself a favor and look up "Tundraful" on Google or YouTube and see the "real" thing. It's worth it.
Science note -- what Alice describes Lewis saying is all part of how the aurora borealis works. Look it up on Wikipedia. Also, the title comes from a song I rather like by The Afters.

“Oh my God. . . .”
“Amazing, isn’t it?” Alice smiled. “Lewis got the idea after hearing some stories from arctic explorers about the night sky at the poles. Something called the aurora borealis. He figured there had to be a way to recreate it here.”
“It’s--” Victor stared up at the ribbons of vivid green twisting their way across the night sky, like the smoke trails of unearthly cigarette. Here and there, they were edged with faint pink, or dissolved into blooms of bright blue. Behind them, the stars twinkled in a vast expanse of midnight black. It was beautiful beyond words. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
“I imagine you say that a lot in Secundus,” Alice teased.
“Well, y-yes, but. . .this is something else. And Lewis did this all on his own?”
“Yes. He said it was all a matter of charging the right particles and exposing them to magnetic winds and – I’m afraid I don’t understand most of it, but it’s something to do with getting atoms all excited and then calming them down.”
“It’s all right. I don’t know if I want to know exactly how he pulled it off.” Victor felt his mouth stretch wide in a smile as he watched the light show above. “Science is wonderful.”