The crowd gathered before dawn, turning the rented field to mud beneath their boots. The media followed, mostly to film the kooks. They weren’t expecting to see a miracle.
But as the sun inched over the horizon, there was a thunderclap and change in the air. A thousand eardrums popped with the pressure difference as something appeared in our world.
It stood sixty feet tall and was roughly humanoid: a faceless being of roiling smoke and floating debris.
The crowd cheered as camera operators and reporters attempted to document the giant.
They continued filming as the cheers turned to screams.

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