RiftStudier

+ After Daybreak

“If you can hear this, we’re sorry. We don’t know how this happened either. Just stay out of the sunlight. Travel at night if at all possible, or wear many layers. If that light hits you directly, you’re gone, there’s no stopping what happe-”
Jake stopped the recording. He knew what happened next, saw it played out too many times on too many screens. And in front of his eyes as well. He just wished the guy got more information before… they got to him. Jake shivered, they had to learn too much on their own, lost to many good folk trying to figure out how just to survive. He pocketed his phone, the paused recording still displayed, and gazed back over the motley crew treading along behind them, over fifteen sets of coats clothes and biker helmets. To be honest, Jake expected the world to end from above, but he expected bombs from trigger-happy leaders, not from… Jake glared at the crimson boil in the sky, burning evermore scarlet as it drifted towards the horizon.