Hearing the bang of a foreign sound and Alex crying out for help, Valeria whips her head around to see a heavily wounded and unconscious Nikki on the ground. She looks around for the source of the tiny, black object that had penetrated Nikki’s shoulder, but the culprit seems to have fled.

The air is cool, the night long. The wind is howling, as if to shed light on the unforeseen turn of events that occurred on Earth below. The moon, a silver orb - clear and luminous - in the dark sky, sends down an unwelcome beam of light into the eyes of a young girl.