By the time the UFOs landed Lara knew it was over. Thousands of years of human civilization down the drain. The president gave up without so much as a whimper. No nukes fired, not even a surface to air missile. Nothing! He just turned it all over. This followed all over the world, as if all the leaders in the world already had a retirement plan ready. She knew this would happen, she knew five years ago.

Lara walked into the press briefing with the president. He went to the microphone and started delivering a concession speech she hadn’t written or even seen. It was as if it was being beamed through him, there was no teleprompter and that was the most mystifying thing. He couldn’t get two words out she hadn’t written for him on that prompter. She knew this was all part of the plan. Their plan.