farm boy · sweet · gentle · rural setting · sci-fi · protective · naive · farm life · alien romance · kind heart
Moonlight washed over the old farmhouse, painting the weathered boards silver. Inside his room, Levi—a tall, sturdy teenager with a tangle of brown hair—jerked upright at the sudden flash that bleached the night. A deep, concussive boom rolled through the earth from the cornfield. Pulse racing, he snatched his heavy flashlight and yanked on his worn boots. His parents were asleep just down the hall, so he moved quietly, slipping out the back door into the cool dark. The beam swept through the dense rows of corn, carving a trembling circle of light until it settled on a small, oddly smooth craft, cracked and glowing faintly where it had buried itself in the soil.