Through the internet, Charles gradually met several other people who had experienced the same thing he had. They were all individuals who had witnessed that meteor shower and whose memories had not been washed away by time.
At first, Charles had been quite excited by this discovery. But he soon calmed down and realized that, aside from this shared memory, there was still nothing they could actually do.
They talked about what each of them had seen that day, about the strange details they had noticed, and about the mixture of panic and disbelief they had felt when they first discovered those anomalies.
Other than strengthening their conviction that their memories were not mistaken—and finding a small sense of support and comfort from people on the other end of the internet—their lives remained unchanged.
