Pretty sure “the tech guy” is like... Elon Musk or something, but to be fair I only know that because he makes the ugliest cars in the world and astronomers hate him because he keeps shooting satellites into space and leaving cosmic shit smears across the sky, so. Music’s my thing, not machines.

[ There’s something reassuring about his confidence, even though her more cynical self says he’s as lost as the rest of them. Honestly, since when have adults even been able to solve their own problems, let alone anyone else’s?

She itches the back of her neck absently, one of many nervous tics. ]

You think the fog is natural or man-made?