He wakes with a veil of fading orange sunset falling over his face. Slowly, he raises a hand, twisting it through the shards of light. There are no callouses. No dry cracks of peeling skin. It is ... [+]
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In the movies, it's always an invasion. Us against them. And they've got tech that far surpasses ours. We fight in the streets and a ragtag group finds a weak spot that the advanced beings have somehow overlooked. Here, it wasn't like that at all. But they did bring the tech – as a gift.Around twenty years or so ago, people started waking up all over the globe to piles of little, white cubes. Piles in the woods, in parking lots, in the middle of the road. Everywhere.Of course, it hit social media like wildfire. Everyone thought it was a hoax until they realized that every single country in the