

For Susan, it was science and study and the struggle to solve the mystery of the altered physics inside the zones transformed by the incursion.

and each other, because when the rift opened, each sister was stranded in a separate form of reality. Their home, their parents, their sense of normalcy. But somehow, that was precisely what happened.įor sisters Susan and Katharine Black, the day of the incursion was the day they lost everything. Of all the things physicists had predicted, "the fabric of reality might rip open and giant monsters could come pouring through" had not made the list. When the great incursion occurred, no one was prepared. It was perhaps inevitable that some of them would turn out to be wrong. We think we understand the laws of physics.
