The Dark Side of Humanity

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“Ashfall: The Day the Sky Opened” (Told from the perspective of Kz’vaan, a X’kral medic during the First Earth War)

The sky was bleeding.

From the central plateau of Kz’haarn City, I watched the heavens weep molten fire. Black smoke roiled in thick veins across the stars, blotting them out one by one. We had no word in X’kral for what we were witnessing. There was only the metallic taste of fear.

I stumbled back from the observation deck, my breathing vents shivering erratically. Around me, the medical hall bustled with triage coordinators, chirring alarms, and the low moans of the wounded. There had been rumors — sightings of black, chitinous shapes descending in metal thunder-claws. Stories whispered through the tunnels: of things that moved faster than thought, screamed in alien tongues, ripped bodies apart with savage joy.

We thought they were lies. We thought nothing could come from the stars to hurt the X’kral.