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coming for me and the next minute I’m in here! I can’t…I don’t know how…I…I…”
    “You don’t know? There’s got to be an explanation for this. Maybe you were so terrified that you ran here and don’t remember doing that,” George suggested.
    “That still doesn’t explain how I got inside here when it was locked. It’s like I used my mind to teleport or something.”
    That made George perk up. He remembered the sensations that he felt when he was running from the mammoth and how, out of his survival instincts, he managed to create the forest out of nowhere.
    “Were you paralyzed with fear?” George asked the Australian.
    “Look you’ve had your fun okay? Yes I admit I was afraid and you got me back, but that trick crossed the line. It could’ve killed me!”
    “Just answer the question. I’m trying to figure something out,” George said.
    The Australian was unenthused.
    “Please?” George pleaded.
    “Yes I was terrified! I nearly pissed my pants. I was literally paralyzed with fear.”
    “And did you close your eyes?”
    The Australian studied George with a puzzled look.
    “Um. Yea I did. And when I opened them I was in this tiny desk.” He kicked the cabinet door with his massive foot.
    George took a seat on the black stool at the neighboring table. He was in a trance contemplating something. His gaze was fixed at the floor and the Australian was watching him still confused.
    “Oh my gosh,” George said softly.
    “W-what?”
    “What if…what if there is more to this transformation than I thought?”
    “What transformation?” The Australian was still not getting it.
    “Are you serious?” George asked in amazement. “I just made a gigantic woolly mammoth appear out of nowhere.”
    “No…no way man. It was a trick I know it.”
    “Really? Are there dozens of woolly mammoths just lying around in the underground waiting to be used in a prank? Common’ wake up,” George said.
    “Then how…how…”
    “The equinox. After the catastrophe everything changed. I’ve been trying to tell you guys for years that things were going to be different, but no one would hear it. When I went up to the surface and discovered my new power I just assumed that everyone would have the same ability, but now…now I’m not too sure.” George looked up at the Australian who was standing and rubbing his head in confusion.
    “You mentioned teleporting.”
    A few days later, George and the Australian were at the neuroscience testing facility in Texas one of the most advanced facilities in the underground. It was ten o’clock in the evening, but neither was tired. They wanted to know what was going on with their bodies. They booked a lab just a few hours earlier and were told to lock the facility once they were done. They were going to need all night to experiment.
    Meanwhile, in Underground New Jersey a high school senior was getting ready for her prom. She had been waiting for this day ever since freshman year and finally it was here. This night was even more special to her because a guy who she secretly liked for three years finally asked her out. Prom night would be their first official date. She was incredibly nervous and yet excited to be seen with one of the most popular boys in school. Her friends tried to talk her out of being his date, because they felt he was trying to use her. A part of her believed them. She wasn’t exactly the prettiest girl in school. In fact, she was alienated because of her homely appearance. She was a brunette and her hair was thick and frizzy. Her nose was a constant source of insecurity for her, because it had a large hump that made her side profile desperately unattractive. The proportions of her face were asymmetrical and her skin was dotted with pimples. She was twenty pounds overweight for her age and her stomach would spill over her jeans.  She would spend her days daydreaming about how it would feel to be beautiful with perfect skin. She’d imagine herself