The Reincarnated

I give to you the continuing saga that began with Husband and Wife and continued with Avalanche in eleventy-one words...

(See Reincarnated for other posts in the series.)

After the initial shock, renowned scientists and religious leaders of every ilk offered their myriad contradictory thoughts. A deity’s work? Or the next step in our evolution? It seemed an answer to an ancient quandary; and yet the phenomenon was as – if not more – mysterious.

Whilst academics bloviated, communities reacted. Some in East Asia thought the children holy. Others in the Middle East and Africa shunned them. The majority of families fell somewhere between, loving their children in theory but treating their childrens’ ‘gift’ as a handicap.

An Australian government official happened upon the moniker – albeit not entirely appropriate by traditional standards – that would define the generation. They became the reincarnated.