Only the very oldest people remembered a time when humans could see in color. Or colors rather. . . It had been nearly a century since the Blushscourge struck the populace. Only recently had details of the event begun to spread. Though many proclaimed secret government testing, or a genetic timer going off, the classic "aliens" conspiracy was actually the closest.
The Blushscourge arrived at Earth from space and caused a phenomenon where the eyesight of every person became rose hued. No longer could humanity experience green or blue or any other color. Everything was pink. Different tints and shades of pink.
Evidently it affected everyone down to their genes because every person born since then seemed to have it. Children didn't know any different, and the older generations had gotten used to seeing everything this way, but the oldest of the old remember vividly, and seemed haunted by the loss of color daily. Innocent children always tried to cheer them up, but their dour countenance remained. What had caused the Blushscourge? What drew it here?
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