3. [WP] A day before the Earth is destroyed by a collision with a rouge planet, tim...

[WP] A day before the Earth is destroyed by a collision with a rouge planet, time freezes. You, a completely normal person are untouched and cannot die. Text on your arm appears that reads, "however long it takes, save us".

The first and most frightening thing about time stopping was the darkness. To see requires light, light is emitted by vibrating atoms, when time stops, the vibrations stop, the photons stop and there is no longer anything to see. It took me a while to realize this. In the beginning there was only darkness.

At first I didn't know time had frozen outside of a bubble around me. if I had, i would have been curious how I could breath. As my lungs expanded to inhale, how could frozen oxygen move to fill the void. When I exhaled, how could carbon dioxide through frozen air rather than just lingering before my as toxic cloud, slowly suffocating me? It would be a long time before I realized this was an important question.

No, at first I simply fumbled for a flashlight like any power outage and felt no surprise when flicking the switch caused closed a curcuit between the battery and the LED, converting electrical energy stored in the battey into light that spread out into the room, was absorbed by atoms, re-emitted and picked up by the retina of my eyes, allowing my brain to create a detailed model of my surroundings, including the mysterious writing on my arm.

"However long it takes, save us."

Save who? From what? And how did it get there on my arm? I didn't have a headache or nausia or any other symptom of a really good party. It was delicately painted on in a perfect scripted font. I was not an expert in paints and tattoos or I would have been even more impressed with the exotic materials used. For now, ir was simply a magical message.

You might be wondering why it would have trouble deciphering the message, but i had no idea there was a rogue planet coming, nobody did. It was coming in fast and from an angle 70 degrees above the solar plane. Telescopes cataloguing the sky only had a 20% chance of spotting it at all. As I would later discover, time had frozen only moments after an automated sweep of the sky had detected an anomolous high-speed object and software on a server half-way around the world had computed a trajectory that intersected Earth in a mere day's time. No human had yet set eyes upon the data.

But I get ahead of myself. At this point, I was merely fumbling around with a flashlight, trying not to step on my suddenly affectionate cat and wondering how far the power outage extended. Only slowly was I becoming aware of the utter silence of all the normal white noise of a city.

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