Chapter 1: The Warning
Our moon has betrayed us. It can no longer watch as humanity chokes life from its love. We will all crumble under the pressure of its waves, and the world as we know it will cease to exist.
Earth will release a long-held sigh; the cosmos will mourn as rock turns to ash, scorched by our delusions.
Humans are creatures unlike any other. They laugh from deep within their chest, cry from the ripples in their souls, slaughter with regret, and love without hesitation—a love so poisonous it destroys the only home willing to shelter us from the cold.
Her arms, once wrapped around us, gave comfort during the silence and taught us what it meant to be alive: to experience the whimsy of fireflies on a summer's night, or the warmth of family on a winter's day.
Now she lies there, beaten and bloodied, on cracked concrete. Her comfort—now a turned back, walking away from the pain we’ve inflicted on her.
And us—confused children, wondering where we went wrong. Pleading on our knees for our mother to come back to us. But it falls on deaf ears.
We cannot undo the damage we’ve caused. We cannot bring back the dead.
We are not God.
