Finding Hope, Part 1
Sam was alone as he fell from the sky and into a gray world. The city and people below, the horizon, and even the sun were bathed in its different shades.
He was falling, falling, falling—zooming past gray clouds while screaming at the top of his lungs for fear of crashing onto solid earth at breakneck speed. Luckily for him, it was a relatively short fall. He landed feet-first onto a wide cobblestone path surrounded on both sides by tall pines.
“What in Hades is going on?”
The crowd of gray-toned people milling around the road paid him no attention. As if they couldn’t see the huffing, wide-eyed hero with the sweat-coated face who’d magically fallen into their midst as if he’d been shot out of the sky.
“Where…” Sam took a deep breath and forced his anxiety down before his gaze took in the sights around him. “…Wait, I know this place.”