The hospital had stood for nearly a century at the edge of Black Hollow, its tall windows watching over the town like unblinking eyes, absorbing the quiet tragedies of ordinary life and the louder catastrophes that arrived without warning, yet nothing in its long history compared to the night when the sky above it slowly drained of color and became something pale, luminous, and deeply unnatural, as though the world itself had forgotten how to remain dark.
The hospital had stood for nearly a century at the edge of Black Hollow, its tall windows watching over the town like unblinking eyes, absorbing the quiet tragedies of ordinary life and the louder catastrophes that arrived without warning, yet nothing in its long history compared to the night whe...