Menschendämmerung

It was the last sunset as people had experienced it so far!
The people of the Rhine Valley in Chur watched as their sun took its leave in the southwestern Oberland, glowing red, in a spectacle of colors never seen before. It seemed as if the sky was blazing in an unspeakable firestorm. Powerfully, the red-orange glowed through the air polluted with the smallest ash particles and dust grains. The whole landscape was immersed in the unreal last evening light, before only the highest peaks flared up to be slowly enveloped by the dawn.
Thus the people, with a strange great trepidation in their innermost being, marveled towards the southwest and yet could not avert their eyes from this eerily beautiful sight before the last glimmer of color had disappeared.
The light went, the eternal twilight came, and in it the people changed in a strange way.