The previous evolutions had taken him under like falling into dark water.
This one was different from the first second.
The energy didn't stay in the building.
It spread outward through the walls, through the domain barrier, out into the settlement, and it didn't spread gradually.
It spread all at once.
Within the first hour the sky above the settlement was wrong.
The natural light of the day was fading in a way that had nothing to do with clouds or weather, the quality of the air itself changing, growing heavy with a pressure that wasn't atmospheric.
People stopped what they were doing and looked up.
The clouds that gathered were black.
Full black, no grey in them, and they moved against the wind instead of with it, coming from every direction at once and converging above the Graveyard.
By the end of the first day there was no sun.
The settlement was dark in the middle of the afternoon.
