The Modern day

A cosmic law demands that Earth be consumed by a greater power, and the only thing standing between humanity and that fate is Williams, a boy who is ancient in ways that have nothing to do with his age and everything to do with what he has carried across eons. When the enforcers arrive to force Earth’s ascension he fights them to a standstill alone, holds them off, and sends them away with a clear message: Earth is not ready, and he will not allow it to be taken before it is. He returns to the surface and does what he came to do, tear rifts open across every continent, seal them for one thousand days, and give humanity a deadline not as a threat but as a gift, a hard fixed point in time to train against, to grow toward, to use as the pressure that turns ordinary people into something the universe will have to reckon with. In a forgotten neighborhood on the outskirts of Lagos, a fifteen year old boy and his twelve year old sister receive their parents’ blessing and walk out of everything familiar, carrying nothing but each other and the refusal to be left behind by a world that is becoming something new. They are not chosen, not special, and not ready yet, but the deadline is running, the rifts are waiting, and the universe is about to find out what two kids from Ikorodu are made of.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​