At Her Mercy

Nobody knows who She is, or where she came from. But everyone, religious or secular, agreed that there are only two eras that matter now, before Her, and after Her.

At first, there were reports of entire villages in Eastern Europe being rampaged. Buildings were found half demolished, unnatural earthquakes started occurring in zones that had never experienced it before... when people went to look for survivors, what they found were naked bodies with a smile on their face. The ones who had died, died of heart failure. Others they found breathing but comatose.

A few weeks later, Her image appeared all over the media, and it was all over.

She would visit large cities seemingly at random. Satellite images caught an object soaring through the air at impossible speeds that corresponded to her movement. Eyewitnesses reported that they saw her floating unaided. People didn't believe it at first. But now, anything seemed possible for her.

The populations of the cities would be decimated as the infrastructure was mostly left alone. Only a handful of people survived her visits, and those who did, never explained why they were spared.