The setting sun peeked through the runewood mountains, casting long shadows across the ground. Cedric sat on a stump, carving elementary enchantments into neatly cut and thin runewood tablets...
On August 15th, 1977, a strong unidentified narrow-band radio signal from space was detected by Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope. The astronomer who first saw the recorded signal realized how non-natural it looked...
There was an explosion. Blurred visions of fervent fighting flowed through Marcus. Screams, gunfire, and the whir of ECS suits echoed through his ears...
It was a different time back then, during the days of the Ascension Machine and the Grand Overseer. A false hope plagued the city; an ever-growing lie that we had secured a prosperous future...
It was cold. He was lying down on something. Voices could be heard murmuring in the background. There was a great whirring noise of machinery. Or was it humming? His mind was in a fog and he couldn’t see. Someone started to move him...