Alia's Vision

The planet Apet drifts through the stars. You see it closer than ever: an orb of swirling gray clouds, and around it the silvery ring. When skyseers peer into the heavens, they believe this ring shows the past and future. But the ring is incomplete. An arc has been snapped out of the circle. Your own reflection on its surface stands mere feet from the end of time.

You step into your reflection, stand upon the edge of the ring. Cracked shards of icy silver crunch under your feet. You can look down and see the endless dust storms of Apet, look out and see the heavens wheeling about you. And when you look forward, thousands of miles away, you can see the other end of the snapped ring. If you looked long enough, you think you could see the dawn of history.