Humanity was utterly unprepared when it happened. On a misty Monday morning they came. Over hills, through vales, out of forests and tundra and the very seas themselves, they came.
They could not be stopped. Not by conventional weapons nor, we found out, by unconventional. Everything they touched would be changed irrevocably, and they would eventually touch everything.
Out of our deepest nightmares they came, to claim a planet they'd long occupied, but never ruled. A part of us for all of time, yet rarely noticed, and only feared in imagination alone.
Now, imagination became reality, and it was their turn now. The shadows.
They came and they conquered and all of Earth became darkness. |