Then, a voice spoke to her:
Hey. Hey. Wake up. You, the chickadee. The sleeping one. You who is sleeping. Wake up. Wake up.
Serena then woke up. Ash. Cold wind. Darkness. Everything the same.
Ugh.
Oh my God. You're up.
Yeah. I just want to sleep. Let me go back to sleep.
Sorry, can't do that. I think the world just ended. No one has the right to sleep.
So we're dead.
No, we're not dead. Well, maybe we did die but the state we are in is not dead. You are thinking and feeling and breathing and you flew around here and stuff. We're very much alive.
Where's the world, then? Why are we in bottomless darkness?
The world is away, I guess. I don't think anyone knows what happened. All I remember is that I was sitting on a powerline and th-
Powerline? That's where I was too. I was there and then I thought I-
Melted into it.
Yeah. Melted.
What's your name?
Serena. You?
Andrew.
Well, looks like it's just me and you. What do you want to do?
Scream. Yell. Cry. Wonder where the fuck everyone else is.
Hey wait. If we melted in the powerlines, does that mean that we're like...electricity?