Peek-A-Dawn 破晓

“The joy of letting dawn find us.
让清晨来拥抱你。“

oil on canvas
36x28cm

There was a strange phenomenon – once every hundred years, at exactly midnight, the moon would turn a pale, glassy, mirrored blue. Legends whispered – a star had fallen. To them, it was a mystical event.

However, to Rei, it was the trip he had been waiting for a lifetime.

For as long as he could remember, he had watched from far away – that bright blue globe swirling with green, speckled with wonder. He had heard tales of wind and sunlight.

So when the sky-path opened – that century gateway of blue, he didn’t hesitate. With a flick of his starlit tail and a breath filled with courage, he leapt.

Now, he lay there, looking curiously around him.

He heard the laughter first. Light, bright, ringing through the quiet dawn like little stars falling into place. Two children were running down a path – chasing bubbles, chasing sunlight, chasing nothing at all. When they skidded to a stop and spotted him, his entire body tensed, cautiously.

For a heartbeat, the world waited.

Then, recalling why he had come – travelling galaxies for a new adventure – he took a measured step forward.

The children crouched down curiously, looking at him with wonder, as he basked in the sunlight. One of them whispered, almost in awe, “Look, he’s…glowing.”.

Rei felt something warm and unfamiliar bloom in his tiny chest.

At that moment, Rei understood something the stars had never taught him: that a gaze could be warm like dawn itself – meeting you without demand, inviting you into the day just as you are.