2024-06-12 - universal secrets

Squat, this one sits in opposition to all in its way, an accident of creation that burns bright in defiance of the dark. Dipped in cosmic blackness, the thick shell is stretched and round as it strains to contain the volatile forces within. A scarlet coruscation is cast by a white-hot core that burns bright on the face of this fragment of compressed stardust. There, where it blazes brightest white, the shell bubbles just a bit, a palpable, smooth cabochon in defiance of coarse striations that stretch apex to base in their struggle to maintain structural cohesion. What strange alchemy is this that will turn yolk's gold to life? The universe will not yield its secrets so easily.