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EARTH
Hugh sat at his laptop, the house unnaturally quiet. The children were at school and nursery, giving the man some time to do some digging. And he had just unearthed something. When not playing daddy to his two boys and husband to Gemma, Hugh was part of an online community called Black Knight. A worldwide smattering of gamers, authors, book cover designers and the odd hacker here and there. He’d just received a message from someone called Ezekiel, from Florida. He knew of Ezekiel, not always agreeing with his paranoid conspiracy theories regarding shape-shifters, secret societies and the social media Armageddon countdown. The man from across the Atlantic was convinced that social media was put on Earth as an experiment that would bring about the end of mankind, through fake
