more freewriting here, beware those who are wary weary what do those words mean anymore.
The sky turns yellow, the new englanders light candles, in the middle of the day. By the time you eat lunch it looks like as if the night has come early. The worshippers congregate in the churches and places of worship. The air had a strange enchanting hue, covering the buildings trees and the rivers. The dark dense cloud arose from the ground covering everything there was to see. The birds fell quiet. A religious man noticed that the people were pretty receptive that day. Some people went to taverns. Cattle went back to their stables to hide. The frogs were ribbiting like they would in the wee hours.
Guilt, sin, redemption. The folks in these parts of the country were specially liable to believe in superstitious ideas. They truly thought that this was the day of the judgment, even members of the government were influenced by some rather outrageous suggestions.
It rained in the afternoon, the skies resumed their usual look. The sun came out the next day, there was no discovery of unusual activities or unexplained phenomena.
What is it that people saw on that day, why was it that such day had happened? Were the end of the days really coming? Or was there more...secular explanations of the event. Such as the gentleman who suggested perhaps it was just ash, thick smoke from some great fire that hadn't been discovered?
The new ideas debated existing ideas. A revolution of its own was happening beyond the seas, and it was through explanations behind this episode that they made their to these lands.
Not some strange clouds these were. Most certainly not eclipse of any type, for humans had calculated and pinpointed the timings of those events to the minute. Could it have been a volcanic eruption from half a world away? Unlikely, for the great day of dark was localised to the large area around the major cities of the region. What then could have caused this?
The smell of swamp on fire would certainly suggest a great volcanic eruption. The more likely suggestion was a widespread forest fire, that along with fog and cloud cover had led to those conditions, perhaps. The philosophers and thinkers set on an expedition to discover those trees that had so caused fear and confusion in the lands of men.
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