No cringy lore with this one, but a bit of IRL inspiration. I have one of those strangely vivid yet inconsequential memories, specifically of me in kindergarten lying on the floor of the classroom at the end of the day waiting for the teacher to take us to the bus. I was staring up at this fluorescent light fixture on the ceiling, the ones with four tubes. The two outer tubes were dim and flickering and there was a gap between the two inner tubes. It gave me the impression of looking at a distant shore across a glassy smooth body of water reflecting the steel gray sky, with a break in the clouds near the horizon letting sunlight through.

Artist @early_riser@lemmy.world