New Pasadena, 8:40 p.m. Friday, January 21, 2056. Off campus- Restaurant “El taco loco” South Oak Knoll alley crossing with East California Street.

Lena and Olivia were having dinner at a Mexican restaurant and now are going back to their apartment on campus located in the northeast part of New CalTech, it will take more than 20 minutes to arrive there and because of the curfew they couldn’t find transportation.

Olivia: “Baby, we have to find shelter before nine”

Lena: “You’re right, where could we go?… Do you know someone who lives closer?”

Olivia: “No”

Lena: “Me neither”

Olivia: “Perhaps we could reach one of the new student’s houses”

Lena: “Most of them are on the east side”

Olivia: “Not all of them, I heard Steph is complaining that her group is to the west, let me call her”

Olivia uses the holocube from her pocket to produce her holophone.

Olivia: “Hi, Steph”

Steph: “Oliv, how are you, tell me, what’s up”

Olivia: “Steph, we have a situation, Lena and I are walking on East California street we are far from our apartment and the curfew is about to start, could we crash in your place?”

Steph: (sighing) “Sure, you could stay with me in my building it is the H-003 I will be waiting at the door, it is the second building to the north, for you should be to your left”

Now Steph was very nervous, Olivia was her best friend and she would never be able of hurting her, but she has a thing and a secret history with Lena.

New Pasadena, 8:40 p.m. same day–Arroyo Park Cyber observatory border with Old Los Angeles ruins

Vince: “The curfew will be in effect, in around half an hour, the motion sensors and holo-videos are already recording low activity on the streets and large groups walking together toward shelters or houses, I already talked to Phyllis and she confirmed that the main campus is safe and closed”

Kathryn: “The ship is ready and the pilot cadet has been selected, she is my best…”

Franklin: “…Before we continue, we must hear the last minute Angus’ report”

Angus: “A change in the magnetic fields at the RZ has been detected 10 minutes ago, the instrument suggest a magnetic vortex is starting to form”