In one day an entire planet was restructured. A year later, that same planet was instantly deprived of what had popularly been referred to as magic. This had monumental effects that reached into every level of the world's systems, entire species of animal and plant life that relied on magical forces to exist were wiped out instantly and would live on only in fairy tales. Long dormant viruses and bacteria emerged for which no animal had yet developed an immunity to. One can only imagine how such quick changes could affect a planet's life systems, especially when one takes into account a planet's incredibly slow rate of change (as compared to that of a life form). The creatures that survived would now have to adapt to a world that had wholly changed at a fraction of the time lightning takes to strike. Among this list of survivors stands the human being.

By all reasoning, the humans are aware of the world on only one level: physical reality. The rest is just philosophical or evangelical guesses. And humans (or more popularly known as people), taking into account size, are physically the weakest creatures to ever walk the world, in every sense of the word. Yet they survive, not only survive, but flourish. They do so because they are the only species who function on two levels: the physical and the psychological. People do not live through their instincts and so are no longer under the control of the rules of any life cycles, they have reached someplace beyond that. So nature had no guard against them, no natural way to keep their numbers in the proper ratio with the rest of the world. They are beyond control. Or are they…

While humans may only be aware of one level of existence, that hardly means they aren't effected by other levels. Quite the contrary, since humans are only aware of the physical, they have no true defense against their own psyche. People may not be controlled by their instincts, but they are most certainly controlled by their emotions. As such they create their own life- system unique to humans alone, that only crudely resembles their natural counterparts. These are popularly known as societies and/or cultures and they tend to follow rules that are the polar opposite of natural instinct.

Still nature has not let go of humans completely, so they are still driven (not controlled) largely by their base instincts and are still only aware(acknowledge) of the physical. So when something as traumatic as the events of the past year occur, people – while buffered – are not completely immune.

To see the psychological reactions to such massive physical stimuli is no doubt a fascinating spectacle to witness. The end result of which, would be completely unpredictable…