Prologue

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| ...on other news, a boy has been reported missing, adding one more person to the already 27 that disappeared this month. The population demands answers, claiming that "Someone must be rapting them. They can't vanish out of the blue.". The President gave a speech this morning, calling for people to remain calm... |

It was a cold Friday afternoon. Uirusu was sitting on the couch, watching the news, stuffed on her cream-colored sweater, with a cup of tea on her hands. Her eyes were posed on the TV screen, but didn't look. The clouds outside covered the sky, the streets empty, the light posts not yet on, although it was quite dark. 

Uirusu sighed and got up, turning off the TV; she had to go to her night work shift, the last one of the week. The girl left the cup on the kitchen sink, changed clothes, packed some stuff on her bag (messenger type) and grabbed the keys and her phone. She went towards the door, taking a last glance at her home before leaving, closing the door behind her.

She pushed her black, long wavy hair out of her face as she walked down the empty streets, in her mind, the scenery making her get a pang of... nostalgia? Solitude? Pherhaps some sadness mixed with the fear of being alone, as well as with a strange cozyness?

She didn't even notice she was already on a street corner. The red light on the other side of the road looked at her grimly, forbidding her from crossing just yet. But it was empty, everything was devoid of any person, any car.

She turned her head to one side, then to the other, scrutinizing for any danger coming at her. She saw none. 

So she began crossing the road.

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One moment, she was looking at the other side, to the corner on the opposite sidewalk. 

The other, everything went black.

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