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High on buildings, doves cooed, sheltering beneath dripping eaves I even gli behind a trash Du potential apocalypse, life was going on all around h hell, lost people, almost been killed, and learned to adapt in the past year The entire human race had suffered, in every city across the world Everyone’s preconceptions had been shattered They’d confronted iht and scrah ruined cities, found new places to live, lost and mourned loved ones Those of us left arriors determined to make each day count and savor the s? Or, even if it would come

As I splashed down a narrow cobbled alley, a flicker of lanced up to see ZEWs huddled atop the building on both sides of the street, heavily cowled heads bent, peering down at , let my u back, unafraid

I wasn’t broken anymore InspectOr soht unbreakable

As one, the flock lifted off and quickly ed into the leaden sky

I s everywhere, drinking it all in

People sat, eating and talking, behind the rain-drizzled s of bars and restaurants that now had food to serve again There were few Fae out and about, lances atto the other side of the street), and I knehy--Fae don’t care for rain They like things to be pretty, clean, gla so oing to have to locate and attend at soed that I was a wolf he didn’t want in his backyard

I rounded a corner and nearly crashed into a cluster of people gathered in the street outside a s outside under tents on--Oh!

I stopped and stared A few dozen workers had erected high scaffolds around the peri a waterproof tarp on long poles up and over it, careful to keep a fair distance between the tarp and the subtle gravitational pull of the sphere

"What are you doing?" I called

The burlytheir endeavors shouted to be heard over a sudden crash of thunder, "It’s the bloody rain! Falling into the holes and feeding theest ones first but the bloody wind keeps blowing rain in sideways!" To a man on the other side of the sphere, he shouted, "Find a way to peg the tarp to the ground so the sides don’t blow it into the--Ah, shit, Colin no! Bloody hellfire! Nooooo!"

I gasped with horror A gust of wind had just caught the edge of the tarp that was draped on poles and scaffolding and whisked it into the sphere Instantly, every single thing touching the tarp, poles, and scaffolding was stretched thin as spaghetti, sucked into the black hole and devoured