A Rock to Cling to While We Catch Our Breath
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Derek Hale has always existed in Stiles’ periphery. He heard him tell the story of how his family got to Lake George on genealogy day in the fifth grade. Listening with almost laser-like intent as Derek skillfully worded his grandparents fleeing a place once called Beacon Hills, in California, just as the Mojave Desert finished eating it alive. He could see it so perfectly, a young couple, waking one morning to find that the desert they thought miles away now consumed their property, the trees around their ancestral manor withered and dead, the grasses turned from green to bone white in the cruel night hours. They’d stayed for a few weeks, eking out an existence as the wood of the trees grew dry and hot enough to shatter and splinter, and the dirt turned to sand.
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It’s the twelfth anniversary of the Aira Eruption, better known as the Day. Derek is twenty four, and all he has left is Cora. Mom and Dad died in the Great Famine that followed the onset of the Long Night, two out of 3.5 billion to do so. Peter was lost when the Winter Wars razed Brooklyn, and Laura was cut in two in an industrial accident. All that’s left of New York now is Manhattan and Staten Island. The ice age, the civil war that followed, and the mass die-offs of people took care of the rest.
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It was a warm July morning on the end of the world. The five preceding comets had exploded in the atmosphere and laid waste to more than half of the land on Earth, and billions with it. He remembers the night before, seeing the coming doom as a blue-white streak that stretched across the sky, a gash of white in the blanket of darkness. He knew, even at nine, that the odds were he’d never see the stars again.
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Walt Whitman's words tell the story of two boys in the aftermath of the end
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As summer break approaches, Derek begins a tenuous romance with Stiles Stilinski. Just as the summer between Sophomore and Junior year shapes up to be the best he's ever had, it quickly turns into the worst the world has ever seen. What started as riots in Romania becomes a global pandemic, sparking not a zombie apocalypse, as pop culture had trained them to fear, but a werewolf apocalypse. Forced to run, and entrusted with the care of an infant, Derek and Stiles set on a road trip across California towards what they hope is salvation.
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Take in this sight. Take in the vast expanse of greyness, unrelenting and abandoned by the Gods. Taste the ash on your tongue, smell it on the scant wind. Listen to the roar of what was once the main artery of a continent, now clogged and rotten like the heart of some gout-ridden nobleman gasping his last. There was once a city here, now ash. There were once lives here, now dust. Giant, burnt-out torches tower where trees once stood, the force and the flame burning away their leaves and limbs and leaving behind only blackened stakes that point to the glaucomatous sky like the site of a great witch burning.
After the end, an alpha, his mate, and their pup make their way eastward, in the hopes of finding something, anything.
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