Chapter 36The oceans rose, the tides creeping up shores of sand and stone, the weight of the new planet growing closer and closer in the darkened skies above.
Hearing of the terrible fate that awaited them, there came a frantic scrabble from government agencies to put forward some sort of narrative regarding the situation, and all the while the observatories fell silent, men and women dying at their posts beneath the gaze of the terrible new planet hanging in the heavens above them. Meanwhile, the radio chattered on, a news cycle that alternated between fact, conjecture, and a fiction that most were desperate enough to believe.
Miki had arrived at school in the morning to find the building almost as empty as the cram school had become in the evening, and after an hour of being the only p
