Morris's speculation pointed to a dark future in which everything falls silent forever—it imbued a chill that far surpassed any bizarre destructive prophecies, far surpassing the apocalyptic disasters spoken in a madman's dreams.
It was an icy, dark extinguishment. The last flare of light was to gradually die out amid the ashes of civilization. Civilizations' afterglow choked step by step in the fatal contractions, much like a sinking ship where the desperate threw overboard their burdens in hopes of delaying their inevitable doom, but in the end, every plank on the ship inevitably fell into the Endless Dark Abyss.
Even more unacceptable was that, according to the existing intelligence, the likelihood of this future was extremely high - even, it was the best among all possibilities.
Because "civilization" at least had a chance to linger after the fourth or fifth long nights, at least it could enjoy some last fraudulent peace in the collapsing, continuously crumbling Shelter.