The Dawnless Day

by Jay of Lasgalen
August 25, 2009

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Darkness begins to flow out of Mordor.

March 9, 3019

Blue-black clouds the colour of a bruise began to well up in the East, an ominous shadow that poured relentlessly from Mordor.  A dying sun lit the cloud base from beneath, casting an eerie light over the darkening land.

The cloud spread, blanketing the sky until only a small patch of clear blue remained through which a single star gleamed like an eye.  A wedge of cloud shaped like a hand groped towards it and closed like a grasping fist, squeezing all light from the sky.

The star glimmered once and was gone, and darkness rolled unchecked across the land.

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