Chapter Four

Thunder claps resounded. Lightening flashes stretched themselves across the scorched sky, sending chills down the spine of many in Vermissa Valley. Adrenaline rushed in many veins, as fiery red waves of light in the darkened sky confirmed the one now prominent truth; the approaching end of human existence, which has been warned by the government, preached and prophesied by many religious organizations, and declared repeatedly by the news media was finally here.

It was all dark and reality was bleak. The once scorched sky in the forenoon had become denser, the air around filling with debris of a strange and unknown substance. It was flaky, yet glittering. It was burnt. It looked like the ash from a wrecked kiln. Above it something else was falling. A gigantic planetary body, terrifying like a big monster, with all the strange debris emanating from it.

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The burning body descended slowly down upon the valley. I was stunned by it. However, I was just a little girl. I was returning