"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 was still seated unmoving five minutes after Cathy dropped the news. 


My heart had never beaten as fast as it was doing now. I looked at Cathy's still smiling face. With a voice that sounded nothing like mine, I held her hands and said 


She wasted no time getting up on her feet and walking briskly towards the elevator. 


We walked towards the elevator that would take us to the middle floor where she was waiting, no longer a dream but a reality. 


Cathy pushed the button for the middle floor as soon as we stepped in, she looked more eager than I did. The elevator door was about to slide close when someone's hand disrupted it and it came sliding back open. 


I looked up to see Kate's PA looking directly at me; his nerdy glasses perched on his nose. 


"Miss Katherine would like to see you in her office now" 


"What does she want now? Normal people are already in bed by this time" 


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