There was not a whole lot of reasoning for it, so nobody really ever said much. They knew it was their own fault; humanity's fault. It had been a long time coming, yet even when it came nobody knew what to do. Everyone said that they were ready but no one was. Not for this. She remembered the first time things had started to seem off. It felt like years ago now, but was really just about 10 months. It seemed like the sun was setting slower than normal for the time of year it was the first night. But sun still set before 8 o'clock so nobody really thought anything of it. Nobody was worried. Nobody cared that night. Yet she had worried about it. Hearing all these things in school about the electric sun flares and what not, made her worry about it. It took three weeks, she had counted it well. The days were turning to nights and the nights were turning to days. The panic levels from everyone on the planet were so high that most just preferred to stay silent about it. She didn't understand why. The universe was changing at a colossal rate and nobody said a word for days. And this was before the change was effecting much of anything. It became unclear what day it was at times. If she wasn't mistaken the date now was somewhere around December 17th. Nothing felt how it should during this time, though. But there were other things more important at the moment. One day, the sun just stopped. The sun set and never came back up. Complete darkness. That was 10 months ago. That was the first time anyone had ever realised what was truly happening and only then did people start talking about it. The Scientists called it The Closing. According to Them, the forces of entropy build up from the years and centuries past of technology and human output, had started to set the entire planet and nearby planets out of balance. The Scientists said that the earth was slowing down, and always had been. Only now, the rate of which that happened had begun to accelerate, they said it was surprising everybody wasn't dead already. She didn't really know who The Scientists were. But there were posters and paintings on every building in the city with their logo and every radio played their broadcasts. She had theories about who they were. Maybe they were some elite organization of leaders or something. The first time anyone had ever heard of them was the day when the sun didn't come back up. Nowadays all people had on their mind was the sun and The Scientists. Even if they didn't say it out loud. Most things were battery powered now. Nobody wanted to make the situation worse. The country in which phones were over powering, now held a rare occurrence of the item. Most places were like this now, though. Nothing was quite the same, what so ever. So why pretend like it was?
"Dinah!" She was startled by the sudden exclamation of her name, yet quickly realised who was calling her. "We have to leave!"
Dinah picked up the hand flashlight that sat on her nightstand. She turned the little light on, tugging lightly at her hoodie's sleeve as she exited her bedroom. The air in the building felt damp. Humid, almost. Causing it to feel what could be considered harder to breathe. Upon exiting the hallway, a second flashlight shone into her face, obscuring her vision for moments.
"Oh, sorry. There you are! We have to go," the girl on the other side of the blinding flashlight restated her previous exclamation.
"God, Lauren. Can you turn that off?" Dinah retorted, and Lauren did, "where are we leaving to anyways?"
"There's a broadcast tonight, remember?" Dinah nods after a gentle period of thought. Lauren was Dinah's best friend and always had been. They had only gotten closer in recent months, seeing as Lauren and Dinah's families lived in the same Battery Block. They looked at one another as sisters at this point.
The Battery Blocks are housing units. The Scientists had built them after the first rain; the first after the sun had magically disappeared, of course. The electrical systems had become hyper sensitive, soon to become radioactive. When it had rained the first time, several people had died. Therefore, The Scientists built Battery Blocks in every city. Battery Blocks were 20 story buildings and everything in them was powered by nonelectric batteries. There is one family on each floor. Nobody knew how the Battery Blocks got there, anyways. The day after the first rain the cities woke up and the buildings were just there. Big, dark blue skyscraper-like buildings covering every city community. Sometimes Dinah felt like The Scientists knew things that the people didn't. Sometimes the things that happened seemed planned. Dinah reverted from over thinking it, though. It only frightened her even more about the situation.
