189 The Advent Of Change

I felt a great change in the winds, a terrible wind coming from the southern reaches of dis. And then, as if responding to my concerns, it fell upon me — the revelation of what I had beheld. 

I had witnessed an inexplicable event that defied all common sense... and it reinforced my faith that he would lead us all to salvation. .

...Of this, I had no doubt. A new season had arrived, and with its arrival had come change.

— The Eventide of Faith, by Haydn Kingscrown

A timid whimper reverberated out across the deserted mountain range as the world froze in abject fear. Alone, a lonesome figure stood in a delirious state, locked in between a hell of foreknowledge and a paradise of ignorance.

He was someone who had plunged into a bottomless pit of absurdity. In the middle of a fatal crisis, he had realized his own shortsightedness and leapt into the only thing that he thought could have saved him.