The Gathering Dark
“Yet never had he seen a vision so hellish as that which unfolded beyond the broad window of his train compartment now. The village of Mont de Moreau had been transformed into a tableau of damnation that was positively Boschian. But this was no painting, no portrait dredged up from the fevered imagination of a troubled artist.
“Armageddon,” Sophie whispered beside him.
They stood together and stared out at the ravaged village, at the dark, heavy sky, clouds hung low and stained with a hi...deous orange light. Kuromaku shook his head, mind awhirl as he tried to make sense of it.
“Impossible,” he said. “The rest of the world was unaffected.”
“As far as we know,” Sophie replied, her voice very small.
“True. But look out there. This has not only just happened. Recently, perhaps. Hours ago, no more than a day. But nowhere else that we know of. If this is Armageddon, it is Armageddon writ small.”MoreLess
“Armageddon,” Sophie whispered beside him.
They stood together and stared out at the ravaged village, at the dark, heavy sky, clouds hung low and stained with a hi...deous orange light. Kuromaku shook his head, mind awhirl as he tried to make sense of it.
“Impossible,” he said. “The rest of the world was unaffected.”
“As far as we know,” Sophie replied, her voice very small.
“True. But look out there. This has not only just happened. Recently, perhaps. Hours ago, no more than a day. But nowhere else that we know of. If this is Armageddon, it is Armageddon writ small.”MoreLess
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