The world continued on much as it had been. Nobody was granted immediate and sudden knowledge of the new world.
But there would be no story if it were never found. Indeed, it seems improbable that the power of transformation would not be found quickly, and with several points of origin. Here are three options:
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Meg Watanabe sat in the economy-class seats of the Boeing 777 as it made its way through the air, somewhere south of the Alaska Peninsula and between Tokyo and Los Angeles. She was returning from visiting family, and was already preparing for a job interview tomorrow at some Silicon Valley firm. The Sun blazed bright from the east, and she thought she could see the California coast in the distance.
A moment later, there was the crash of metal as one of the engines failed. The airplane began to flag, then fall...
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Jeffrey Fontaine sat wide-eyed in the back-seat of a pickup, reading on his phone. The car blazed west on I-10, just over the Texas state line and headed for Houston. There were jobs, his parents had said, on the Houston Ship Channel. There would be money. Not like in Morgan City.
He was the first one to see it when the truck in front began to veer left...
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"Are we ready?"
"I think so," Morgan Williams said. She wore witch's robes from an old Halloween costume, but she was not merely dressing up. Beside her was a yellowed book retrieved from her grandmother's house, and before her was a ritual circle.
She knew that she, and Kirsty and Steph and Maria around her, would gain power from the ritual. She didn't know what kind, or how, but she was ready to find out...
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