­ Earth Alone The time was April. The university newbie left the room as soon as the lecture ended before everyone else at 2:45. He did not want anyone to recognise him as not an outsider, though no one knew him as such hence he would not have been stopped anyways; he still resolutely walked on to the hill road outside of the plaza. There, he felt the unexpected change for the first time. ‘No one’s around…’ There was a huge number...

­ Earth Alone The time was April. The university newbie left the room as soon as the lecture ended before everyone else at 2:45. He did not want anyone to recognise him as not an outsider, though no one knew him as such hence he would not have been stopped anyways; he still resolutely walked on to the hill road outside of the plaza. There, he felt the unexpected change for the first time. ‘No one’s around…’ There was a huge number...