"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

They all stood in a tight circle with six pairs of eyes staring at each other, their faces a mask of fear and trepidation. The antidote was ready, the machine to burn it was ready, but the problem was that someone needed to drive it, and no one was willing to do it. 


Driving the machine requires extra vigilance because any little error can lead to death. 


The plan was to burn the antidote as as the fumes get into the atmosphere, it burns every trace of the poisonous gas. The machine needs to be driven till it becomes hot enough to completely engage a chemical reaction that would completely vaporise the gas. Whoever is in the machine must make a quick escape or end up being vapourized too. 


After much deliberation and tense silence, Keturah decided to be the human sacrifice. 


Carlo kept boring holes into the back of her head, staring at her as if she had gone mad. She purposely averted his gaze. 


On the other hand, her mother, Maria was so opposed to this, 


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