TO SAY THAT WHAT HAPPENED next was, for all intents, impossible to describe, would be to short you, Reader, in a way I am not prepared to do. More so, it would be to skip or gloss over the most salient aspect of what occurred that day; the day in which we learned just how strange and inexplicable the universe really was, and, more importantly, just how dangerous it had become—not just for us but for everything we had ever known, ever would know. Suffice it to say that when the lightning-like bolts erupted from the girl-thing’s eyes, they instantly connected with (and paralyzed) virtually everyone present—Kevin, Orley and myself included. And here is where it gets so strange—and difficult to describe—for what happened next was like, a kind of mass hallucination, one in which all of us, I t