She was an ordinary graduate student at the University of Manchester, until one day in the physics lab. She was helping with one of the experiments when everything went horribly wrong.

There was a brilliant flash of light, and then a roar echoed through the building. She hurried out to see something materialize in thin air. It seemed to be made out of pure darkness, a black hole in the shape of a monstrous raptor.

It loomed over her and she froze, overwhelmed by terror.

That was when the blond man in the hoodie grabbed her hand and shouted "Run!"