The night continued on the twenty-second day after the sun had set. Messages from afar began to report many disturbing situations.
In the distant Cold Harbor, a massive shadow briefly appeared above the sea—it towered like a sea cliff, resembling a weightless fog. Silently, the shadow drifted from the nearby sea region into the sky, closing in like a curtain beside the City-State. Almost no one saw the shadow appear until a night watch priest suddenly felt a gaze from the sky during a hallucination, and all the churches rang their bells simultaneously, startling the shadow back into the night.
