Chapter 17: The Slowing Rotation

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​​‌‌⁠It might have been a million years later, that I perceived, beyond possibility of doubt, that the fiery sheet that lit the world, was indeed darkening.

Another vast space went by, and the whole enormous flame had sunk to a deep, copper color. Gradually, it darkened, from copper to copper-red, and from this, at times, to a deep, heavy, purplish tint, with, in it, a strange loom of blood.

Although the