Photo/Art Depiction: Vinnie Van Wyk

INT. CAB – SPECIALIST LEE
sits in the back, glances at the meter and then out the window.

DRIVER
(checks the meter – it starts rolling in reverse)

LEE
How long you think this’ll take?

DRIVER
. . . it started in the Mesozoic Era “when certain pawns became ‘enlightened’ . . .”

LEE
(awakening)
What?

DRIVER
The pawns are BACK . . .

Juniper Orion Lee looks at her watch and out the window . . . “What?”

EXT. CAB – POV LEE
The cab is in a room with no floor. A stately woman BINNEN GUREN VII walks toward Lee.

BINNEN GUREN VII
Every race, nation, and religion has its monsters. You’ll be a pawn until you know that.

As Guren reaches toward Lee, the calm on Lee’s face turns to terror.

She was not accustomed to fear.

__________________________

[21^st Century A.D.]

“I come from a long history of military. My father’s father’s father . . . and so on have fought in every war on Earth from the rebellion of Cain to now. I was privileged to the oral account — but had never experienced the ‘magic’ until now. I have always been thankful for the synchronicity that saved me through four tours of duty, but it never clicked that they were speaking to me until today. The ‘Uthers’ are not good or evil, nor do they play favorites.

I had never known what that meant until today. The whole world has stopped, why now?”

Why?

Hans Linke – AWAN GAUSS — Traveler

Mantha Balourdou – TERRE DUVALLE || Timothy-Christian – NILE ELAN