Status Updates From Afterglow Rising From the A...

I didn't know I needed an alien invasion story, but I am really enjoying it!

"If you find happiness, don't hesitate... We have such little control over everything else. Don't let anything, or anyone, stop you from taking happiness wherever you can find it."

I love this

"So I ran, and I didn't turn back."

Girl - this is insane behavior

This would make sense, because the first creature they saw reacted the same way with the glow when danger was coming

THIS REUNION - I'm sobbing, how heartwarming

There is absolutely a connection between them and the creatures

Oh my god, they've missed THAT MUCH TIME?!!?!

This is such a humbling and scary realization

This is such a small but kind gesture, he DOES have a heart, awe

My jaw is FLOORED - holy shit

"Hope was a fine line - if you didn't hold onto enough, you'd always be at the mercy of the slightest breeze. Too much though? ..."

Sooooo true

I love how much detail and diversity has gone into each of the characters and their relationships with one another

"A mission downtown was possibly suicide, but at this point, what wasn't?"

This reality is horrifying

"Apparently, Russell had not yet learned to never compare women, especially when they were standing right next to each other."

So he's DUMB

Wait, I LOVE the dual pov and their different experiences - this is going to be such a fun way of gathering informatiom

Hmmm I feel this is definitely going to be important

I would be a WRECK - this is terrifying