“What are we?” Adaora asked, after a moment. “We’re people,” Agu said. He looked at Anthony. “You can make a sonic boom.” To Adaora, he said, “You can create some sort of force field. I have super-human strength. And we all walked into each other’s lives just as aliens invaded Lagos.” “Not a coincidence,” Anthony said. “Na the work of de universe.” “It’s the work of something,” Agu said. Adaora shivered. “My father would have said it’s the work of the gods.”
