The Gathering
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  • Reads 18
  • Votes 2
  • Parts 2
  • Time 10m
Ongoing, First published Jun 06, 2016
Everyone wishes to see into the future at one point in their life, but when a small group of humans gain the ability to do so, chaos and violence nearly brings down the whole of human civilization. This new group of humans is branded as "Dreamers" and are deemed to be not a part of the human species at all, and so are hunted down and "taken care of."
17 year old Anne Proprius is grew up in the post-war country of Bellum and had indifferent to Dreamers for the entire life, believing them to be lower than humans-simply a genetic screw ups. But what happens when she finds out that she's one of those genetic screw ups?
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