I Moderate (i_moderate) wrote in we_coexist, @ 2013-01-30 10:10:00 |
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Entry tags: | 14 days of night |
Reversed Flow
The ways that the sun had faltered previously would pale in comparison to this.
Every defiance of the natural order of things was progressively worse. The sun not going down in a timely manner. The sun getting stuck at high noon for a prolonged period of time. Even then, it hadn't been as outrageously wrong as it decided to be on this day and the days following. Instead of just a few hours, or even a large handful of hours, this interruption went on for three full days.
It began with an incredible slowing, like a clock running low on batteries. The movement didn't altogether halt as it had before, just inched through the sky like a sickly turtle. Seconds stretched into minutes, minutes into hours. That would have been enough, on it's own, to cause problems and further worry. But it didn't end there.
As the stars began to blossom in the sky, the sun reversed its course. Spreading light again in the sunset that had already happened that evening. The reds and oranges spreading out once more, only this time, opposite of the way it had previously shown itself.
The clocks still moved forward, the way that they should. Time still progressing in the manner that it always had. The days and dates on the newspapers going on as if nothing had changed. As if to spite the fact that the sun was being wholly abnormal in it's route.
72 hours would pass before the problem self-corrected. At the end of the run, the sun would slow again during the reverse sunrise, pause briefly, and then completely go back to normal.