The roof of 75 Godiva, Saturday morning

[vdistinctive]

Eliot had come up to start working on his garden for the season, but got sidetracked. First by what sure as hell felt like an impact tremor (it was a very distinctive variety of earthquake). And then by the fact that his usually largely unobstructed view of land along the horizon line in the direction of Baltimore was now a largely unobstructed

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[age_of_the_geek]

A great deal of impassioned and frenzied swearing came from inside the house. "Eliot! Eliot!" Hardison yelled, sticking his head out of the window to yell up to the roof. "Eliot, everythin' is gone!"

[vdistinctive]

Eliot rushed down the stairs. "What? Did it just disappear? How did - Hardison, nothing's missing."

He'd been expecting suddenly empty rooms, here.

[age_of_the_geek]

"No, man, no!" Hardison said, cradling his phone in his arm like an injured animal. "The networks! All of 'em! No phone service, no internet, like almost no communications at all! It's all gone!"

[vdistinctive]

"Dammit, Hardison!" Eliot scowled. "I just ran down three flights of stairs thinkin' the furniture was disappearing. Of course the networks are down. The mainland's gone."