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So this is how it goes
Well I, I would have never known
And if it ends today
I'll still say that you shine brighter than anyone

I'll wave goodbye
Watching you shine bright.

Welcome. Are you like us?
No?

I suppose I should explain.

My name is Shannon. Yes, like the river. Anyway, I'm one of the last. One of the last hum- people on earth.

See, I nearly said human. But I'm not entirely human anymore. The humans were wiped out by a freak virus. Animals and plants were left unaffected. If the virus didn't kill you, it would make you stronger. But less human. A lot less human.

If you were going to survive, you still got the symptoms. The worst was probably the coughing. You could cough all night and be a sore as hell the next morning. I won't give you the gory details. But if you were going to survive, you would get a really bad rash. It didn't itch, but it hurt. You would ache all over. The rash would eventually fade, but your skin would glow. It's not that obvious in daylight, but we glow like anything in the night. There's no such thing as darkness when we're around.

And we are unique. We can mutate into an animal. One animal. It glows too. And for some unknown reason, we also have the control of one element, which we can use in either form.

Water And The Cheetah.

Fire And The Eagle.

Air and The Wolf.

Earth And The Bear.

Light And The Snake.

After a lot of searching, we managed to find each other. We began to set up a new city. It took a long time. But now...

It's complete. And it glows.

Like us.

But we discovered that we're not alone. There are people who are less human than us. If that's possible. They slink around in the outskirts of our town, never quite able to get into the light of our city.

The smart one worked it out that that's why we glow. It's to repel the Lurkers as we call them. But the Lurkers seem drawn to our light, even though it makes them weaker, and if we glow too brightly, we can kill them. The Lurkers have unknown powers. And they seem... darker than regular humans.

We swore that we would stay away.

But will we be able to stay away? And will the lure of our light be too much for the Lurkers?

The Bear is still free. The Snake may be free, I'll post an update here if it is. The Eagle hasn't posted since she was accepted, so she may be dropping out. Again, I'll update you here.

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