434 Cancer

Starfall Year 833, the riverbanks of Magel, a winter evening in Moldova.

The sun was falling on the west as dusk clouds filled the skies. As the cloud layers gradually thickened, they concealed any starlight, darkening the land.

Suddenly, wild winds billowed, and the air halfway up the sky thundered. A stunning light flashed over the earth like lightning, but it differs from the real natural phenomenon—this particular bolt resembled more of a fissure, and the giant dark-red crack did not dissipate but instead lingered solidly over the air.

In an instant, the light was gone and the dark-red crack revealed its true form. It seemed to be a rupture that was cut open by a sharp blade, hanging over the space. Hairline fractures then started to extend erratically over both ends of the rupture.