I felt the statement of this new law reach the eastern sea, because I felt the great slow storms out there wake and join, a wall of weather five hundred miles long igniting down its entire length in one heartbeat, like a struck match seen from the wrong end of time.
The sound of this ignition was frightening, and I wondered if lives were lost to this sound alone, and I felt it reach the ruined south, where the sky had become dead black with ash and demon smoke for who knows how long, and I felt all that filth ignite, thousands of square miles of poisoned air remembering that it could carry a charge.
I thought the previous explosion was massive; this one eclipsed the first by an order of magnitude, enough, I think, to silence the entire world.
The statement crossed the continent, and I could feel spots of cold that I could not touch, all roughly in the shape of pyramids, and I recognized that I was feeling the Caeliths that were spread all across the continent.
