For most of the world, the darkness had already become yesterday's mystery.
Humanity was remarkably talented at that.
Give people three impossible minutes in which every light upon Earth vanished at once, let noon become absolute night without sunset, let the sun remain somewhere above the clouds while refusing to shine, entire cities disappear beneath a darkness deeper than the ordinary absence of electricity, and within a week the event would somehow acquire documentaries, conspiracy channels, academic panels, religious debates, merchandise and several thousand people online confidently explaining what had happened despite understanding absolutely nothing.
The phenomenon had been given names.
Too many names, naturally, but while the ordinary world argued; the hidden world did not.
At least not about whether something had happened.
The few beings upon Earth whose perception extended far beyond mortal senses could still feel it.
The Void had left.
