Friday 7 April 2017

DailyFlash: Darkness

Only the very oldest people remembered a time when humans could see in colour. It was a brighter time when the sun shone through the clouds, or there were no clouds at all. Now the sky was rock.
     "What was it like?"
     "They used to be proud. These days, those born with colour to their eyes stand no chance. But the old ones: they would paint by fire in the safe bastion; all day long preserving oils and pigments so that one day, they said, in a millennia, there would be something of our colourful history."
     "And where are the paintings now?"
     "Just that: preserved; behind the vault they locked themselves in so the air would not destroy them."
     "They died for them."
     "They died for us."
     "Did you ever see a painting?"
     "Sure, yes. But it was too bright. It was beyond anything you have ever seen, and beyond our understanding."

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