The sky is paper now.
Not metaphorically—literally. Cloud-cover peels like parchment, revealing layers of discarded outlines stitched to the heavens with thread made of forgotten subplots. Each thunderclap is an editor's sigh. Each lightning strike, a misplaced simile corrected mid-air.
The world shudders under a new tectonic force: Genre Drift.
Mountains become memoirs. Rivers rewrite themselves as scripts. The oceans groan in third-person omniscient.
And in the center of it all—where gravity folds inward upon grammar—a rift opens.
The Erratum Rift.
A tear in the meta-textual membrane. A wound leaking unfinished thought. Through it, lost characters crawl, blinking. Deleted antagonists. Misgendered protagonists. Background extras desperate to be foregrounded.
They have no arcs. No resolution.
They are hungry.
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APPENDIX CD.LXXXIX: THE LEXICON BLACKOUT
Language fails.