"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

Keturah was panicking, she felt that chill in her spine. Is this how she dies? She always thought she'd die from the poison in her bloodstream. 


“Keturah, listen to me!” Carlo’s voice came through the headset, cutting through the chaos. “You can do this. Use your powers. Remember what you’re capable of. You don’t need the lever. You can make it work.” 


Keturah’s breath hitched. Carlo’s words ignited something in her—a spark of hope, of determination. She closed her eyes and focused on the energy within her, the power she had refused to relinquish even as the antidote was administered to others. 


The machine groaned around her as she extended her hands toward the lever. She didn’t need to pull it physically; she could feel the mechanism inside, feel the resistance, the jammed components. Sweat trickled down her temple as she concentrated, channeling her energy into the stuck lever. 


“Come on,” she whispered. “Move.” 


30_A New Dawn