Woops- Was it supposed to be only a paragraph? Sorry, I ended up making quite a thing and I already have some ideas on how it'd continue. Hope you don't mind though. Thanks for the (probably unintentional) inspo and sorry again!
(by the way, Ce is just a provisional name. If I do extend this, I'll give them a proper name, which may or may not have something to do with this provisional name)
Without their grandfather around, the workshop in their cottage would be isolated for a long time, if not forever. Ce explored the now abandoned studio, looking for something they could take to remind themselves of their relative. Wandering through the multiple unfinished paintings they found something nobody would expect: a rectangular piece of wood with some carvings in it. Ce would've never expected their granddad to be keen on wood carving as well. The piece was small enough to be picked with one hand, and so they did, taking the piece outside to inspect the carved wood more clearly in sunlight.
When Ce left the workshop there was no trace of sunlight although it wasn't later than 3 P.M in May; the sun should have been shining bright. However, their eyes were already used to the dark, so they didn't mind. They kept walking outside the workshop, looking for their cousin's car and, after two minutes, right next to the car, the carvings on the piece started shining in an orange light. They heard a voice in the back of their brain ordering them to turn around, but before they could do it, they heard something falling dead where something was supposed to be. Despite trying to make clear who or what had dropped thanks to the sudden lights, they couldn't see anything else than a greyish shadow and the lights disappeared as suddenly as they came.
Ce waited for their eyes to get accustomed to the darkness again, but now they could perceive something was different in the sky. They looked down at their left hand, the one still holding the wood piece. They could swear something was happening, but they knew they'd stutter more than once if they were asked what exactly.