IMPORTANT:
Haven't read FEAR? Don't read this prologue if you haven't as it has a major spoiler from the end of FEAR. You'll regret knowing - that's how big it is.
Please skip to chapter one :D
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April 2011
"The Sphere is transparent!"
Caitlin "Cat" Evans looked away from her unfinished maths homework and stared at the TV screen. Sure enough the music channel had vanished and had been replaced by footage of the 'Eighth Wonder of the World' - the sphere that encased the Californian town of Perdido Beach. It had always been a grey wall. You couldn't see anything that was going on within (if there was anything going on at all). Except for that one time several months before when the barrier had disappeared for a split second to reveal the scraggily, wide eyed children of the sphere. Of course the wall had reappeared before anything could really be done and it hadn't even been caught on camera, but that had been on the news too.
But this was different. This time the sphere was transparent and it was staying transparent. Cat stared at the TV in silence. Parents and tourists and anybody who had been close by were crowding round the glass-like walls of the sphere, holding up signs or waving or crying or laughing. And the children. They were crying and laughing and waving back from inside the sphere. And then a terrible light appeared from the palms of one boy as he burnt the lifeless body of a girl whose face was distorted and smashed.
Cat jumped when Closer to the Edge by Thirty Seconds to Mars blared loudly from her pocket; her ringtone. She pulled out her cell, unlocked it, and opened up the latest text in one swift movement. "OMG r u watching the news!?" The text was from Jess, her best friend since kindergarten.
"Of course I am. Who does their homework without the TV on?" Cat sent it after making sure she had spelt everything correctly and used correct grammar. Everybody knew Caitlin Evans was Harbourview's biggest perfectionist. She also texted like that to annoy Jess, but that was merely a fortunate bonus. Cat's eyes returned to the TV. Something told her the sphere and biggest tourist attraction in California was going to be in the spot light for a while.
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FanfictionWARNING: This book and its description contain spoilers from the GONE Series by Michael Grant, specifically FEAR. The Amazing Sphere of California is the centre of attention again after its appearance changed for all. But that's only the beginning...
