The livestream continued, but after everything that had been revealed so far, the world genuinely no longer knew how to keep watching it.
People stayed glued to their screens all the same, as they simply had no framework left for what they were seeing, no way to process one impossibility before the next arrived, so they watched in a kind of stunned, helpless trance, absorbing revelation after revelation that reordered their understanding of reality and being given no time to recover between them.
And in the middle of all that, almost as an afterthought, Liam had mentioned that he would be attending the F1 final in Abu Dhabi in two months.
It was, to him, a throwaway line. To the world, it was a detonation.
Because for the first time since he had made himself known, since the vacuum and the moon and the starships and everything else, the world had something it had never had before: a fixed point, known place and a known time.
