The tree that was once planted had become pale and hollow over time, until finally, someone came to hack at its remains, only to turn it into firewood, burning away to charcoal dust between his fingers.
And when he looked around, the room was cold and empty.
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In the year of the fifty-seventh asteroid to pass over the right side of the Atlantic ocean–close enough for it to skid over and burn the waters to ashes–the place1 Flagships had set the looming arrow of the thing1 protocol to center of Austria, charring an expanse, until a three four-thousand meter deep blades where swung and plunged to hook into the sides of the Earth. A single cut was drawn across the Earth, searing the land until its halves floated, held close as the thing2 set itself into the core and began to slowly consume the planet.
To the North of the Austrian border, between her and Germany, the 'aliens' on the ships came down, a fleet drawing out of a beehive until the air was spotted to a darkness, the sun smudged as one would with a stain on a window. The 'sun' rose from West, setting in the East, as the cities were flattened to a single field plain to the singular purpose of a gas station, and within one hundred years, the Earth became two halves of a farmland of flesh and iron—the remaining "people" that lived on the land were reduced to slaves of each other and the greatest freedom was to let free from the Earth and onto the place1 Flagship.
It was precisely eight-nine years after the "end of the world"–or the seven-hundred-twenty-ninth planet marked for destruction–that ■■■■■ was born next to the border between Austria and Germany and left in the middle of the snow as the edges of the Earth cracked and sniped at his feet. The cold weather struggled to push him towards death as he was picked up and hauled to be turned into the next generation of workers in the mines, hanging close to the ever expanding edge of the Earth's crust.
Earth was calculated to be [eaten] in fifty-five-thousand-three-hundred-twenty-one years after his birth, the average length of his average life worth 0.0011749607 of this duration.
I am 22663 words in and stuck on this stupid piece of writing.
