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Present Day – Altered Timeline – The City (Jerusalem)
By the time he reached the city, the deadly glow of the setting sun had completely disappeared, and night had fallen. Lukas had never seen the true stars in the world Above, but even if they had been visible through the blackened grime of the roiling clouds stretching in every direction—which he highly doubted—the blinding glare of the city lights now would have drowned out those twinkling gems in the sky anyway.
Even before he’d passed through the wide, glistening arc of a glass walkway that might have been a formal entrance to the metropolis, the sound of the place had overwhelmed him entirely. The air split around him with the bustle of traffic, the whine and buzz of vehicles both bound to the roads by gravity and hovering throu
