I was working at the docks as I would any cycle when I began to smell something I didn't recognize, something I couldn't place at all. A short while later a lightning bolt shot up just off the side of the skydock and I began to float upwards. If I hadn't grabbed a rope, I would have floated off the edge and fallen into the Floor.— Interview with a shipwright
Turning the Sky Upside Down
Lightning is a strange thing in the skies. Usually it strikes downward from the storms that rise from the
Floor. Inside the unending storm of the
Floor lightning strikes, curls, hurls, and flies all over the place - making traversing it with a
skyship very dangerous. There is not much evidence of what lightning does below the
Floor in the
Void but a few stories say that the darkness is punctuated by occasional lightning strikes.
On rare occasions, a bolt of lightning will fly up from the
Floor into the
sky and past it to the
High. Often this is seen from a long distance as a lightning flies up in an empty region of sky. When a bolt is going to fly up under or beside an island, it is preceeded by a unique smell in the air. If this smell is discovered in time, people will often gather to feel the effect - or if they're lucky, watch the strike.
Regardless of whether it strikes the bottom of a skyisland or flies up by the side, it is accompanied by a few brief moments of weightlessness for everything - and everyone - nearby. This often causes people to float for several seconds before slowly returning to the ground.
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At its Most Expected
It is on the edge of
Burim at
Three-Hook Point during the end of summer, where the highest concentration of bolts into the blue that happen near a skyisland occur.
People travel there to experience the phenomenon and it occasionally coincides with a spearfishing event.
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