Across the sky a strange shape was painted, like a deep wound that spurted blood against the nightblack: a great, red comet, streaming across the sky from north to south.

• 天空上，点缀着一个奇怪的形状，象黑夜里，从很深的伤口喷涌而出的鲜血：一个巨大的红色彗星，自北向南划过天空。