Thirty-five years before the events that played out in Seven Sands Valley. On this day, the heavens suddenly darkened, and the earth became grey all over Dusk City. The people were shaken as cries of alarm filled the air. "What is going on?" "It's an omen." "Dusk is doomed." People cried out in despair as the wisest among them shut their mouths, focusing only on leaving this place doomed by the heavens and abandoned by the earth.
The darkness that covered the city grew thicker with each passing second, and after what seemed like an eternity yet an instant in time, all things stopped for a second. The laws of time paused everything all over Creation. For that one moment in time, there was no time, and therefore no one understood for how long that moment lasted. When time began moving once again, a grey lotus was birthed above the city. All darkness was dispersed as though this was the beginning of a new dawn.
