It Is The 41st Millennium 소설 & 이야기

Nodding my head, “Yeah!… I mean what day is today?” “It’s the 31st of July.” “Ok… what year?” He paused for a bit, stared at the faces of the others before sending his gaze back to me. “It’s the year 2024. We are in the 21st century.” “Oh. Alright, thanks.”

Four days passed rapidly. Before long, the clock hit 12 AM. Another day showed up. It was April 21, 2021.

Ten years had passed since the sky broke over the Sea of Salt. The "Rainbow Fall" was no longer a terrifying memory; it had become the central epoch of the new calendar. In the year 10 A.R. (After Radiance), the world did not look like the one the First King had envisioned, nor the one the Golden Queen had policed. It was a world of Movement.

​We spent the first hour in a state of suspended shock, the kind of silence that only comes when the world you knew has been erased and replaced by something impossibly vibrant. According to Aris’s calculations, based on the celestial positions of the visible planets and the terrifyingly rapid reverse-spin of her mechanical chronometer, we weren't just in a different place. We were roughly one thousand years in the past. We were standing in the era of the First Sovereign—the golden age of the Legends that had been whispered around subway fires for generations.

About half an hour later, he hears the revelry start to decrescendo. He’s learning something priceless that New Year’s: the rhythm of human life when planet Earth completes a revolution around the sun, at the turn of a decade. (Some people might argue that 0:00 January 1, 2021 is in fact the turn of the decade but those people are ice holes.)

" The voice was tiny and on top of her. Rolape looked up to stare at someone petite standing on the quadrangle with a beaming smile. ONE. THOUSAND. YEARS. Thank you for

“That’s right. The birth of Jesus of Nazareth effectively split time for our modern age. Years were measured differently then, but during the reign of Constantine all of that was changed. All right, anything else?” “The third millennium . . . well a thousand years is one millennium, so wouldn’t that be three thousand years?” “No. The words say at the dawn of the third millennium. So that would be now. We live in this beginning. The first millennium includes the years zero to one thousand, the second from one thousand to two thousand, and now we are in the third. So we are rapidly approaching great devastation and upheaval, the likes of which this world has never seen, correct?” Blakeney prom