The deep bedrock beneath the Oakhaven valley still held invisible scars from the cosmic war. While the surface was a thriving, peaceful utopia, the subterranean layers occasionally revealed buried dangers.
During a routine perimeter scan of the southern farmlands, Silas and Kael detected a severe anomaly.
Two miles beneath the fertile soil, a dormant pocket of residual cosmic radiation was slowly building critical mass. It was a leftover cluster of formatting code, buried during the initial battles. Left undisturbed, it would eventually rupture, poisoning the localized water table and mutating the crops.
The two fathers stood side by side in an empty field, analyzing the threat beneath their boots.
