"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

The sun was up in the sky, the weather bright and slightly warm; a perfect day to make an antidote. We returned with the vial of ocean water last night needing to get started with the procedure, more mutants can disappear at any time. 


The late afternoon sun cast long, slanting beams of golden light through the lab’s high windows, dancing on the metallic surfaces of scientific equipment. Keturah, Maria, Cathy, and Katherine bustled through the entrance with a crate of ocean water carefully sealed in sterilized containers. Their expressions betrayed a mixture of exhaustion and determination. The weight of what they carried was not just physical but metaphorical—the potential salvation for countless lives. 


As the lab doors hissed shut behind them, Dr. Lee, head scientist of the lab, hurried over. “Is this it?” he asked, his eyes bright with a mix of anxiety and hope. 


“Yes,” Katherine said firmly. “Let’s get started.” 


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