Beyond the Horizon
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Then again, none of those people ever had to experience a re-awakening while free falling into orbit. Everyone's re-awakenings were different and always had been, and you never knew what ability you would receive. Re-awakening could only occur after a life-threatening event, but even then, it was a lottery. The chances of some recessive gene deep inside you forcibly evolving into the exact thing you needed to survive were already slim. The chances of it saving your life while at the same time you're free falling into orbit was even more astronomically small. Yet as Ren found himself falling from orbit, at that moment when he accepted his soon-to-be fate, that extremely slim chance happened. A flash of gold light filled his vision, and Ren found power coursing through every fiber of his being. The energy flowing freely through him was so enthralling that he didn't even notice that he'd hit the ground on the world far below.