"We've got to stay alive"

Those were the last words I heard from Ma as she pulled my hands running through the street. All around us people were running. 

The world was in chaos. A strange gas was in the atmosphere and people were developing supernatural powers. 

Some had telepathy, they could easily read your minds, some had telekinesis, they could easily lift you up from the ground and leave you floating. 

These mutation caused a change in the earths surfaces. The ionosphere, the biosphere, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere was affected.

The water became too hot to drink, the air became to thick, oxygen was gradually depleting.

As long as you are normal, surviving becomes difficult. You are hunted down down everyday. 

Surviving becomes essential and we have to do all we can to survive. 


 ••••••••

Everything changed for Keturah, when her Mum was taken from her. 

As a scientist, and the best the town ever had, her Mum was suddenly wanted when an accident happened and a strange gas was released into the atmosphere causing genes to be mutated and people suddenly having supernatural powers.

Her Mum was taken as she was believed to have the cure. 

For eleven years, Keturah searched for her Mum, hiding in the woods.

She could feel the change from within. She needs her Mum, She needs the cure.

BEYOND THE ORDINARY

I crept through the hallway quietly. I was cladded in Amara's cloths, my hair tied up in a bun, her glasses perched on my nose and her ID pinned to my shirt. 


I kept my head down the whole time because someone could easily notice I'm not her, we don't even look alike in anyway, but her clothes helped me blend in a little. 


I took the elevator to the top door as she instructed. I made sure no one was in sight as I walked into the well lit hallway, there were just three doors one on the right and two on the left side. Then walking straight would lead to something like a storage room. 


"She's usually at the lab till late in the night" 


Amara's voice still echoed in my head. 


When I asked for her help, I never expected her to agree. I just had to convince her that I meant no harm and that I really needed to see Ma, that seeing her would help with the antidote. 


"The antidote is meant to be tested on you" 


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