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The narrative introduces Storm and her twin sister Ember as beings who subtly repair reality’s fabric by stepping into needed personas. Their work prevents extinction and overpopulation while keeping their true identities hidden, while Storm prepares for a time-shift mission involving a teacher’s body and an imminent “schooling” task for local children.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author ’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not tobe construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locations, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.  \nWorld Castle Publishing, LLC  \nPensacola, Florida  \nCopyright © 2026 Kathi S. Barton Paperback ISBN: 9798891265622  \neBook ISBN: 9798891265639  \nFirst Edition World Castle Publishing, LLC, June 22, 2006  \n[http://www.worldcastlepublishing.com](http://www.worldcastlepublishing.com)  \nLicensing Notes  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in articles and reviews. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems.  \nCover: Cover Designs by Karen  \nEditor: Karen Fuller  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPrologue  \nThe Gathering Storm~~The Peace of being without war~~~~Evenness of mind, temper, and composure~~~~Create by imagination, invention, and design~~Storm walked around the little store listening to the gossip about one of the biggest disasters ever recorded—at least how these people were now witnessing it. She shook her head in amazement. How could humans be so insensitive? Not to mention stupid. That was one of the million and one  \nreasons that she didn’t hang out with humans for too long. They were not only for the most part clueless, but they seemed to have rose colored glasses on all the time. The rumor mill was running full blast, it seemed today.  \n“They say that thousands of those bastards are dead. The whole place just split the roads and ate’em right up. Can’t you just imagine what they were thinking when they were being swallowed up like that? I can’t, I tell you what.” The man behind the counter had himself a great audience, and he was taking full advantage of it today.  \n“Heard tell that them there houses just toppled over like the kids’blocks. Smashing people while they slept in their beds.” The man speaking shook his head.“Mercy sakes alive, it sure did a nasty bit of business over there on that street.”  \n“God is taking some sort of vengeance on them there foreigners. Sure as I’m a ‘sitting here, it’s God doing them people in.” She actually had to physically close her own mouth when the person made that statement.“They should have stayed in their own place, not here where we people are.” Storm wondered if a one of the people standing at the counter knew that they were all foreigners to this land.  \nShe also wondered what they’d say about her and her sister if they knew what they really were, which made her smile. She wasn’t going to speculate on it too much, but they’d have plenty to say, there was no doubt about that. They couldn’t have gotten more foreigners than they were.  \nStorm and her twin sister, Ember, were time adjusters for the world.  \nThey, like a great many other beings, moved throughout time and made slight adjustments in the fabric of reality when and where it was needed, smoothing out the lines so that it looked untouched, perfect. They’d been doing it longer than any of the beings in this room had been alive. And they would continue to do so long after they were nothing more than dust in their graves. Humans and shifters alike had no idea how many times they’d been rescued from their own stupidity.  \nTo do their jobs, they would travel back and forth, sliding into whatever persona was needed to blend into the world they were in. It took great strength and lots of practice to even attempt what they did for the world. Sometimes, they were the only ones standing between the extinction of mankind and the world being overpopulated at any given time. 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