The Slightly Chipped Teacup

Mushroom Cloud

"I understand now." Miles put his hands on his face. He turned to Amra, her bright eyes were the only thing he could make out in the darkness. The room was lit by a lamp, but she sat in the darkest corner. "What do you understand?" Amra inquired. Miles held up the paper which had pencil-drawn lines all over it. When he first found the paper, it had a map of all the sections in Canada which people were divided into. #1, Kyros, #2, Samos, #3, Paros and Icaria. The house that he was staying in was a few miles on the outside of Kyros.

They were made in concentric circles, the first section being the outermost. At the very center of the circles was a tall building, which Quinn labeled Ophiuchus. Around the paper there were words with a point like connect the dots. "He wanted me to play connect the dots with these points. Instead of numbers, they had words." "So how are you going to connect them?" "He labeled this one Ophiuchus, which is a constellation. I drew the constellation based on these dots, and it says-

"She is holding her captive. I can't act. She will kill everyone. Robots. Don't trust Karia. Stop her."

"What does that even mean?" Amra whispered, and Miles stood up. "I might be wrong. But I think that someone is trying to manifest the souls of the people in these sections. When I was outside, I found fine Everglade crystal powder mixed through the dirt. It's too perfect for a ceremony like that to happen." "Use their souls for what? And what human would even know how to do that?" Amra was in disbelief. "She probably has more people working under her, whoever this 'she' is. From what I understand, she's keeping someone my dad knows as a hostage, so that he has to choice but to let her do what she wants. Man, I knew Quinn wasn't dead." Miles leaned back in his chair, putting his feet up on the desk. "If what you say is true, then when do you think this woman will kill the first section?" Amra started to put her hair up in one.

"I have no idea. Maybe she'll give it time, I don't know. But for now we can-" Amra's eyes widened, and she pointed behind Miles. He turned around in the spinning chair, where in the distance, he could see a large blimp with blinking lights. A hatch at the bottom of the blimp opened, and something fell from it. MIles watched in horror as the object descended towards the earth, and fell into the city, exploding into a large puff of orange and black.

Meanwhile

Neph sat in the lab, waiting patiently. She looked over at the humanoid on her table. It had long silver hair which touched it's tailbone, and pale skin.He looked like a boy in his late teens early twenties. It looked unmistakably human, the only way anyone would know that it wasn't is if they cut it open. "Soon." She whispered, her golden eyes running up and down her work of art. His name would be Alfie. "Bomb #1 was dropped. Be on standby. Over." Her walkie talkie said. "Understood. Over." She replied.