Pointing her held fork on the paper, Reina continued. “Those are humans harmed by nature, an influence whose origins we have no idea where it came. If we allow that drastic change to continue, what will become of our world, Patraika? Centuries of development gone to waste in one night? That’s not what we want our future to be.“Do you think it justified to stop thinking we need to do our best to solve this? Any countermeasure we can create that works are better than letting that thing have its way just because we know it’s letting us. The creature is underestimating us, Patraika, and that’s not a creature you want to waste your pity. We are not doing this for nothing; remember that.” Reina finally said as she fixed her utensils and tapped on her tablet to call over the staff.Swallowing her doubts, she stopped watching the video. “Where’s the finalized report for this?”Tapping on the tablet, Patraika receive

There seems to be a mucous-like membrane wrapping around this, what Patraika can describe as, a stomach-like box looking bloated and satisfied with only water for its source of fill and nutrients. The membrane was cloudy to look, like clear white gelatin that melted on warm water. Bending forward as she tried to smell the substance, her face frowned as she took a picture while pulling it from where it wrapped around.Flimsy by sight but its consistency looked strong in terms of durability. There is a flexible quality in how it follows every part of the organ it wraps around as someone pulls it off the stomach like a layer of skin.Storing it on a container felt important, but the moment Patraika pulled it from the rest of it, it disappeared from the end of the forceps. Frowning, she tried thinking of something before asking one of the staff to fill a tube with a bit of water, just enough to fill the bottom.They looked at Patraika like she asked for something ab

The list of cities the results showed varied from G, A, C-city, and five others in-between, all where the “couples” reside. They never strayed away from D-city yet managed to stay away from it during the course.The creepy part was that each match was a spouse who varied in gender and age. Their ages in G-city from centuries ago as an old couple never strayed and all showed about the same. So was the way their gender or age gaps interchanged.An exaggerated example of this would be the fifth couple on the roster. The couple is the last Caucasian on the list and what’s unique about their tandem is the glaring age gap they have from each other. The seventh in the list played with racial combinations. The eight wanted to come back as an old couple but with racial differences from each other. The variation goes on.The interval between how long each couple lived in the city they chose differed by a factor Min-Ain can only guess, but it ranged from

“Reason why I’m heading over. No point justifying things through a video call. Anything can be hidden in this matter, though I doubt she’d keep anything under the rug.“Do your work, I can’t let this matter slip, but the rest can move on as they should.” Prof. Tenorio said with a finality in his voice.Eldric recognized this tone, he knew Prof. Tenorio would never sleep in relaxation by the end of this day, and all they could do was walk forward. Or, at least, his side of the project.The last seconds of their conversation ended with Eldric telling Prof. Tenorio to call his husband, reminding him not to wait for a five-minute voice message about missing their anniversary, reminiscent of that one time a year ago. Scoffing at the memory, Prof. Tenorio ended their call and then let himself nap. They still have fifteen minutes till Northwoods.His trip from sending supplies to A-city, and having a brief conversation with th

Decades have gone as the remnants of F-city continued to deteriorate at a speed nature has been set in, slow but precise. The inclusion of weather and the test of time. Many skyscrapers crumbled into half of what they used to be. Or end up becoming like skeletons, bare metal structures trying to reach for the skies.These buildings now look like poles, layered over each other by disasters passing by. Parts of the city have now fully grown wildlife or are barren with dead plants and forgotten establishments at random all around. Easily could be described as bald patches on an already old mans thinning hair.Areas of the outskirts have now succumbed to sand and nothing but the eroding ability of nature to suffice. If one would walk, leading inward makes for quite a “majestic” setting when structures now hold gardens of their own, either overgrown from their unkempt yards or planted unintentionally from seeds swept by the winds.Dull days remain the onl