Rodeo posts: Rodeo post #216

Hours Past Midnight #69 - Chapter 6 - The Lights That Stayed Interlude: The Blooming

First came the plants, then the animals. Then the shops began to change— the signs trembling like breaths, the floors swelling like living bodies, and every lamp budding into new forms.

The world did not end all at once. It blossomed until it died.