A little girl stands in the middle of a wide street, tear-filled eyes staring ahead at... nothing. The only thing in front of her for miles is an endless pit of empty black. Its edges are random and inconsistent, almost like some massive ink blot spread across the earth's surface. Surrounding it are hundreds of houses, all sitting peacefully at the edge of the enormous gap in the earth like it's just another Wednesday.

But it's a Thursday.

The little girl doesn't seem to care what day it is though. Her face looks lost, empty, almost as lifeless as the black void in front of her. The only indication that she's even alive are the glistening tears rolling down her face. Baby fat makes her cheeks round and her features soft. She can't be more than six years old, and there's a little backpack hanging off her shoulders. She seems to have just come home from school. Or at least, she was supposed to go home, but now she doesn't have a home to come back to.

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It's gone, and with it, her family. Just like thousands of other places around the world, her house, and a huge chunk of her neighbourhood have disappeared, replaced by this empty blackness.

And now she has nowhere to go.

Her name is Ethida Wiles, and she is alone.