It was an ordinary day on Earth, bees buzzing, flowers blooming, trees swaying back forth and every human being on earth busy with their morning routine, but not Zehan, he is busy fiddling with the TV remote trying to find the channel on their "state of the art" box tv, finally he settles on channel 077, where his favorite animated TV show airs at 5'O Clock in the morning Neb 10 just before school.
On this particular episode, Neb is fighting against an army of Never-knights, a group of armored bad guys, their armors look like a medieval set from an antique store. So Zehan is glued to the living room sofa, unaware of her mother Tessa looming above him menacingly, Tessa smacks his head reminding its about time he got ready for the auto ride to school. Zehan turns off the TV begrudgingly and goes to freshen-up and prepare his backpack.
Tessa walks to the bedroom that both her children share to check up on her daughter Abira who's sleeping peacefully after yesterday night's intense study session, Tessa pets her daughter's head lovingly who is tucked inside her blanket wearing her signature bird and worm patterned sleepwear, Tessa tells her to freshen-up and eat breakfast while the food is still hot. Abira while rubbing the sleep off her eyes, says
"Morning Ammi!, let me help setup the dining table."
She yawns to cool her head, fighting the urge to go back to sleep inside her warm blanket. She chooses to stay awake, brush her teeth and help her mother with setting the dining table.
The last one to get up is their father, Anil today is his week-off from work, since the organization he works for follows a Wednesday and Sunday week-off schedule. Both siblings and their mother are eating breakfast together, they greet him morning and both siblings are off to school. Tessa and Anil are sitting together on the living room sofa drinking tea and catching up on things they missed while both were busy with work.
Somewhere Beyond Space and Time
An otherworldly being is busy fiddling with a set of tools in his laboratory, the laboratory is filled with all kinds of apparatus and vials of different liquids beyond human comprehension. A lone meteorite is floating in the center of the laboratory, fumes of different colors swirling around it. The meteorite is the passion project of [Redacted], its made of exotic matter spewed forth by supernovas.
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All building and structures surrounding the laboratory are in disrepair, abandoned by their owners, except this lone laboratory maintained meticulously by [Redacted]. The project's primary purpose is to grant beings their deepest and strongest desires and wishes. [Redacted] is only concerned with making- them as experiment to see how many can absorb and control its creations without letting it corrupt their minds.
[Redacted] is currently fine-tuning and refining the meteorite for mass-production, so it can have a larger pool of specimens to research on. Once its work is done, the meteorites will be attracted towards beings with strong desires and emotions, good or bad and the ugly. It will test them by giving them morality and intellectual assignments through dreams and manipulating and shaping their minds to house their immense power. Each meteorite is a living-breathing entity capable of emotions and thoughts to find and choose perfect specimens to further [Redacted]'s research.
Somewhere in Jharkhand, Earth
Abira is looking out the window, eyes searching for anything to distract her from the teachers lectures about the specifics of India's topographical advantage in terms of weather, agriculture, mineral and warfare throughout the history of the country. How does she know all this even though she's been looking out through the small classroom window, her ears pickup on everything, even stuff she would rather want to forget. A quality that is a double edge sword, forcing her to be aware of everything happening around her involuntarily.
The bell rings and its time for lunch, Abira calls out to her friend,
"Komal, lets go eat in the shade of that tree."
Abira says pointing towards the trees in the playground of the private high-school, They both pickup their lunchboxes and make their way towards the tree's shade. Both girls are good friends and classmates that love hanging out at the school playground, and after school in their neighborhood public park when they have both have free time.
While both girls were busy talking, a little ways off to the side of the playground Zehan and his friends were playing football (soccer, in US). His second favorite thing besides talking about Neb 10. He was good enough at the sport to turn the heads of the passer-byes. Passing the ball to his teammates, shouting and making small talk with his friends during the break-time.
While sharing notes with Abira, since Komal knew her friend’s habit of zoning out and not taking notes during some classes, she points out her mother's tale of a falling star that granted her mother's wish of her first-born girl, being healthy again after some complications during childbirth. Komal stands up and flexes both her biceps to demonstrate her health. Abira smiles lovingly at her friends antics and they both return to their classroom.