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Light Above, Dark Below
FLF prompt #51
“Welcome to the end of the world,” she said, smiling as if she had just told a joke.
But it wasn’t a joke.
It was real.
They stood at the brink of the Earth.
Maya would have laughed at the absurdity of it if the view weren’t shattering her to the core. There wasn’t any wind here on the bare brown rock where her boots rested. Not even the slightest whiff to ruffle her hair or dry the sweat on her face. There was only silence — silence permeating every inch of the infinite chasm ahead of her.
“Look,” said the woman, Ines by name, director of a company called End It in Peace. She nodded toward the chasm. “Just look.”
“What’s t-this?” Maya muttered, her voice breaking like ice cubes in hot water. “Is it… a computer simulation or something?”
“It’s reality,” Ines said.
Maya’s eyes went up. The night sky arched above them — dark and radiant, with stars like golden slits dancing on the surface of an African river. Light gray clouds drifted across, as if the heavens were teasing the watchers, letting only a few lucky eyes glimpse its hidden treasures.
