The Relationship Between Sharks and Chum

After the many different governments that had space agencies confirmed Eden's statement, the world tipped over, and the discussions moved from Eden being the bad guys to the incoming aliens. It wasn't that Eden's reputation had suddenly become better, but rather that the attention span of the populace was limited, and the news of aliens completely overtook the more "local" gossip.

Over the previous two weeks, people had been comforting themselves by believing that Eden was wrong. After all, what could a nation that had no reputation and no world-renowned experts know, anyway? But the series of announcements by more credible experts had yanked that security blanket away from everyone. Currently, the dam had been broken, and the only things preventing complete chaos were riot police and the constant reminders that humanity still had time before the "visitors", as they were being called, arrived.

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