....The universe trembled before it happened. No one could say exactly when, but every observatory, every space array, every god with an eye turned skyward — felt the shift.
At first, it was the Sun.
Its flares did not erupt; they folded inward, collapsing like streams of fire sucked into a throat. The golden corona shrank, coiling upon itself until the great star looked like an eye — dilating, bleeding red, and then black.
The light died.
And across every planet of the solar system, the day ended all at once.
On Earth, the oceans froze mid-wave, not by cold, but by the sheer stillness of time. Cities looked upward, and humanity — mortal and divine alike — watched as their Sun became a hole in the sky.
From that hole, something moved.
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