Northern lights please! <3

It is ridiculous that it took me this long to answer but thank you so much this ask meme was so lovely!!!  I really wanted to get ones for this so just aaah thank you and apologies for delay ❤

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Northern Lights  Tell us about some real life magic.

It’s so hard not to say the Northern Lights, because they are pretty wonderful. I’ll tell you instead: once upon a time, I lived between the UK and Hong Kong. I was very, very close to my grandad – my mother’s father. He died of a brain tumour, and I’d gone back to Hong Kong for a while. I came back to England, and I was on an early morning bus from Heathrow airport, heading back to uni. I was listening to music, half-asleep. Through the whole time my granddad had been sick, we’d kept coming back to this song that means a lot to my mum. ‘Wish You Were Here’ by Pink Floyd. One night, when my parents and I were in Hong Kong, a couple months before my grandad died, we were on the phone to him in England during a monsoon. Normally you shut the blinds to protect the windows, but we’d had a bit to drink and I don’t know, it felt like there was lightning in the air. That song came on, and my mum put my grandad on speaker, and we opened the windows to this howling storm and just, kind of shared that.

So here I am, several months later, jetlagged and alone on a bus on the motorway at about 5am, listening to music. My grandad had passed away. And that song comes on, the first couple notes. And as it does, I swear, clear as day, in a little wood off the side of the road, I saw a white hart. Absolutely white, from head to toe. It was standing in the woods and staring at the road. I have no idea how familiar you are with folklore: but normally white harts and stags, especially in British folklore, are really magical creatures. They’re the kind of thing the knights of the round table go looking for, and I don’t know how common albinism, or even deer are around east anglia. I could have been dreaming. But the coincidence of that song, and that hart, in that moment? It felt like magic to me.