<strong>Sam</strong><br/>Samantha has not bothered going to prom in fact she was in the ice cream parlor when things went crazy. bright lights, a blackout of course except at the few places with generators, including her father's shop outside town.<br/>instead of freaking out, she simply stayed put, and tried her cell, dead. pager, no signal.<br/>She had her own small car, what kid didn't, an old junker but she'd patched it up and it'd run. she had to get home, of course the road cut off at a few points, and she was not going to crash into a two feet deep ditch.<br/>Sam got home with no real trouble if an odd sense of unease.<br/>"Dad!" was the first word out of her mouth, he was waiting, he'd seen her come up the road, her did was a always prepaired and the workshop had it's own powersource just in case, and her father had a decent reserve of fuel. She rushed into his arms he simply nodded and pated her head. she loked up at him, not letting herself cry with worry. "have you gotten word from the powerplant? are the guys okay?"<br/>her father, with his large biker's physque sat down in the shop and looked at her. "you saw that cut off on the way here right? the coal plant 's been cut in half... and" he took a deep breath "according to foreman... Jacob... he got split with it." the land lines were still working thank god.<br/>Samantha held her breath, and broke down in tears running to her room.<br/><br/><strong>Aubert</strong><br/>Aubert was never a creature of comforts, but the warm bath that he was able to lounge in in the town of Ephisus, it was near paradise. of course a missionary's work is never done. a Farmer, Jone Tabor, Aubert knew him, he'd helped him with his goblin problem last week. "sir sir" his head hit the floor bowing as a sign of reverence. "You know MisterTabor ... you don't have to do that unless it's a high priest." Aubert stood up, and walked to get his robes across the room. "yes m'lord it's just...you are indecent" Aubert just laughed. "You tend your horses, my body is not so different, and I see no reason to hide it as such." he finished buckling his pants, and slipping on his breastplate. "so what's the emergency?"<br/>"m'lord there was lightning over the mountian, a great light I could see from my window I came as soon as I could" Aubert patted him on the back and helped him up off his knees "your farm is over a mile out of town. I'm surpised you ran so far." he looked the farmer in the eye "take my room for the night, I don't think I'll need it."<br/>Aubert set about jogging at full speed off towards the forest across the mounians.