@PlumpySmile Hey, thank you so much! I appreciate your feed back! How nice of you to say that! My golly, I cannot tell you how much that sort of writing irritates me, but that's another conversation for another time.
As far as your suggestions go- thank you! I couldn't agree more. To be honest, the description was just a part of the story I decided to put at the beginning instead. Trust me, I will definitely change it in time. I sort of hate it- though I do intend to keep it as it is, in the sense of giving too much away. That part of the story is what happened in the past, which is the "end" of the world. There's no big secret about what happened. Actually, there's quite a few, but that's for later. :)