Six months had passed since the meteor shower, and Dash revisited the chaotic aftermath etched vividly in his memory.
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Dr. Emberson, Andi's father, sped through the scorching desert on his dirt bike, a frantic dash to the meteor's crater guided by intuition. Panic seized him when he awoke that morning to find the first dirt bike missing, as well as his one and only daughter. Smoke over the rocky horizon and a dirt bike trail in that direction told him everything he needed to know.
