9

The sky is choked and the ground coughs up blood. The world has cracked into Shards, and nations do not exist now. The giant white-gray plants, the Morfolia, begin to break through the Earth more and more frequently. Pistils and stamens interlock across the Shards above boiling lava, the only connections between the fragments of the shattered world.

Architects lament the deterioration of their buildings. The Mittelfinger tipped over recently and has already bubbled into magma. There is no Dilemma to solve here, because no one wants to articulate the fact that they must overcome the Earth’s fury.

The environmental scientists can finally scream about climate change in peace, if only because the people who silence them aren’t there anymore.

Biologists sit this one out. All parts of the plant are too tough to penetrate.