To Wish for Peace

In a world of ten billion human beings each with their own personal agendas, nothing can be taken at face value and no truth can be accepted without a pinch of salt. Your next door neighbor could be secretly funding a terrorist cause or a charity organization as a front for laundering money procured from stakes in successful terrorist activities.... Or she may really be a jaded middle class worker who does her taxes and looks forward to her romantic tv shows.

In the midst of all this unpredictability are five characters who would not look out of place if you passed any one of them on the street--only your great grandmother may have passed by them a hundred years ago and like you had thought nothing about them then.

Most people think that living forever would be awesome, but these five know that without a purpose, even a ten minute existence isn't worth living. When unprecedented events bring them together for the first time in their unnaturally long lives two paths open up before them: to find companionship in their shared immortality and a purpose that transcends the interests of any one party, or take heed to caution and the biological instincts of self-preservation and quickly create as much distance between themselves as possible in order to avoid attracting the wrong kind of attention.... The kind that finds purpose only in exterminating unnatural creatures.