There's something about the city that doesn't sit right with the residents, they always have this dazed look on their faces and they move like they've just been told that they're the only real human around and everyone else is a hungry impostor. Now it could all just be coincidental or it could be something to do with the recently closed observatory.
Around ninety five years ago it was first opened with the explicit purpose of studying a dust cloud left behind by a near-miss asteroid called AX410-BX. The most intriguing thing about this asteroid was the colour of the dust - a vivid purple dubbed "Royal AX" and observed for potentially new chemical compounds that could change everything we know about modern science.
No news ever came from the observatory but there was the slightest shift in the colour of dust in the city, not enough to see with the naked eye but enough that everyone's behaviour changed subtly through prolonged stays in the immediate area. No reports were made of this either, perhaps the effect is wider than previously imagined?
It could all be written off as the inane ramblings of a concerned nobody but it can't be denied forever. Someone will notice how the light doesn't reflect eight in their too-metallic-eyes or the way that all of their smiles are all exactly the same regardless of age. There's just something so unsettling in the way their gaze darts around your face while they do their too-small-too-teethy smile, as if they are gauging your reaction and trying to respond accordingly.
Around ninety five years ago it was first opened with the explicit purpose of studying a dust cloud left behind by a near-miss asteroid called AX410-BX. The most intriguing thing about this asteroid was the colour of the dust - a vivid purple dubbed "Royal AX" and observed for potentially new chemical compounds that could change everything we know about modern science.
No news ever came from the observatory but there was the slightest shift in the colour of dust in the city, not enough to see with the naked eye but enough that everyone's behaviour changed subtly through prolonged stays in the immediate area. No reports were made of this either, perhaps the effect is wider than previously imagined?
It could all be written off as the inane ramblings of a concerned nobody but it can't be denied forever. Someone will notice how the light doesn't reflect eight in their too-metallic-eyes or the way that all of their smiles are all exactly the same regardless of age. There's just something so unsettling in the way their gaze darts around your face while they do their too-small-too-teethy smile, as if they are gauging your reaction and trying to respond accordingly.
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