The Least Common Denominator

XXV.II Parallel Lines

"Huh?"

A distant pop echoed in my ears as I was roused from my not-so-productive act of lazing around like a common sloth. Letting my curiosity take a gander at having the steering wheel, I stood up and looked out the window, trying to ascertain as to where such a sound would even come from. My eyes trailed across the sky, looking for something or anything that might indicate the source of the distant explosion, only to find nothing except for the vast array of stars dotting the night sky.

"Odd..."

I wasn't one to snoop about unless absolutely necessary. It didn't sound that important, but curiosity was still an instinct any normal human wanted to indulge. We were in a medieval setting; a place where gunpowder wasn't even invented yet due to the advent of the Fraction System and magic bullshit in general. So discounting that, there were but a few p