"I couldn't close it," she said, her voice cracking. "I didn't want to cheat. I just wanted to see... I wanted to see the simulation of the umbra."
The ground rumbled. A low, deep tremor that rattled the loose change on Aris's desk. The library lights flickered and died, plunging them into darkness.
But tonight, Aris wasn't worried about the astronomy students. He was worried about the file itself.
There were no clouds. The stars were vanishing, one by one, blotted out by a black disc that was moving impossibly fast across the night sky—a sky that should have been empty.
The file size was absurd. 400 gigabytes. A PDF shouldn't be that large.