Prologue

Great Drinks Dance Bar, Manhattan, New York

December 31st 2022, 7:30 pm

The crowd in the dance bar was slowly increasing. This new year was special as the world was shaken in the past few years. As things were getting to normal, people wanted to unwind themselves this new year and party hard.

And in a city like New York, the fun got even better.

But for Rachael Pfeiffer, this year was extra special. She had a crazy adventure a few years back and when the adventure finally came to an end she was not allowed to come back to earth due to the condition on earth.

She was meeting her parents and her brother along with her husband after 2 years.

After Ray Pfieffer, Rachael's brother parked the car in the designated parking area of the dance bar, the three got down the car, while Ray locked the car.

The three of them walked towards the dance bar. When they had almost reached the venue, Rachael looked for her satchel to pull out the pass and she couldn't find the satchel. She realised that she had left it in the car.

She borrowed the car keys from Ray and asked both the men to stay back while she went back to fetch her satchel.

She unlocked the car and when she just held the door handle to open the car, she could hear thunder in the sky.

"Ouch" Rachael let out a cry while pulling her hand off the door handle. The lightning accompanying the thunder had struck her hand. And that was too fast for her to even realise and pull back her hand. She knew it was because she was holding the steel handle of the car.

The lightning was mild so Rachael felt like a light electric shock. She looked up to see the clear sky. She hurried up before she could hear another thunder from far off.

She grabbed the satchel, closed the door and locked the car before hurrying back to where the men were standing.

As soon as she heard the loud music coming off the dance bar, she forgot to tell Ethan and Ray what just happened with her.