A War That Bore a Miracle

A thousand years have passed since the Great Relumination. It took one week for the war of wars to destroy the world. Yet but an hour to reset the lands of yore--lands that sprouted atop the ashes of the last Age of Man. Logic dictates that opposites maintain balance in the universe. It’s only natural that the amassed negative forces that destroyed the reign of man would be countered by an equally positive force--a power unknown to mankind. In order to restore the sanity of an unbalanced world, a miracle was required. Such a phenomenon occurred on the seventeenth day of September, in the year of 2019. It was the day of the Great Relumination--a rara avis gifted to the world which began as a cosmic storm over what was called Ohio.

Beginnings can be delicate--fragile--and at times, susceptible to great peril. But on that great day, the opposite held true--for the unimaginable manifested. A miracle so grand that it changed the world forever. At 7:10 a.m., an omnipotent thunderhead formed above the ruins of Dayton. It’s magnitude intensified as it churned within itself--lightning flashed incessantly but the thunder was muted by the roar of a cyclonic wind. A vortex formed and blackened the morning sky. As it expanded, the war-torn putridity that thickened the air was sucked into the void. As the air cleared, both wind and lightning froze--the quiet halted the return of morning’s light but lasted but a minute for within the blackness of the void, lights began to pop--they looked like stars--hundreds of them...  as they grew, their light intensified and illuminated the land below. Everything touched by the glow was cleansed--reborn anew. The water, the soil, the plants--all life was rejuvenated to its original glory. Then something more wondrous occurred. The “stars” became one and brightened more than any eye could endure--it then vibrated and shed many pieces--“boomed” and flashed to the heavens. The smaller pieces that broke away scattered... finding the bearers of whom they belonged. By 8:10 a.m., the world had been saved--the old with the new. And mankind’s reign had ended.