[ WP ] You 're part of an ancient civilisation that witnesses a meteorite impact . How do you and your fellow citizens react ? What do you think caused it ?

I was asleep when the groundshaker came. It made the very earth tremble, the dust upon my floor rising in tiny spirals, the echoing horror of the almighty *boom* overhead. I ran from the house, staring at the sky. I was not alone. Hundreds filled the dilapidated streets to marvel at the sight left by the groundshaker. Some had been outside when it had come, shouting to anyone who would listen that it had arrived in a tumultuous streak of fire and light. I listened. The mountain that the fire from the sky had struck was cleft in two, rended as a blade passes through fruit. There had been people on the mountainside, gathering wood and stone. They must be gone now, surely, I thought. The mountain was a cracked ruin. Great billowing clouds of blackness roared up from the spot where the groundshaker had landed. The sky was dark; clouds massed overhead, blending seamlessly with the smoke from the crater. There was a wind blowing, whistling through the trees and through the emaciated bodies of children that lined the street in awe. It was less than an hour before the choking, crushing as began to fall.
