Throwing Stones Who: Hannah and Josh What: Exploring When: Friday morning, July 14 Where: Around Madison Warnings: None, probably Status: Complete
Hannah wasn't sure why she woke at dawn. She sat up, listening intently. She heard nothing unusual. It took her a moment to realize that the light coming through the window was...wrong somehow. She brushed the curtain aside and looked out at the early morning light streaming almost horizontally across the landscape. The light was off, and the shadows were wrong.
It took a moment to figure out that everything had two shadows. They barely diverged, but there were definitely two of them. Two suns? Hannah dressed rapidly and left her apartment, drifting up into the air enough to get a clear view of...two suns. Very close together, but definitely two point sources of light. "The Powers That Be strike again," she muttered to herself. Madison had changed. Or moved. Or she had. The possibilities were endless.
She rose higher, turning a circle, surveying the town. It was larger. Not vastly larger, but there were more buildings and more vehicles visible, including a few tall buildings which had not been there before. And beyond the town's limits...forest. Vast expanses of forest, far larger than she remembered seeing previously.
Hannah dropped to the ground in an instant and picked up a couple of fist-sized rocks, then rose into the air again. She flew to the edge of the barrier--or where the barrier should be. She wound up and threw one of the stones with all her strength. It flew for miles, vanishing over the horizon. Grinning, she rose higher, until she was certain she'd have bumped into the dome overhead by now.
She threw the second stone upward. It flew like a bullet thousands of feet, until she could only track it with her telescopic vision. It slowed, stopped, and began the long fall back to earth. Hannah caught it so it didn't do any damage, and then returned to earth.
She laughed as she landed in front of a coffee shop. "The dome is gone," she announced to anyone who cared. "Or at least much bigger."