1907. Braunton, Virginia.
Spyglass pressed to her brow, Mary Dodson Price studies one of the seven “witch ships” making their way up the Shenandoah Valley near her western Virginia home.
Thinking them the work of the Devil or perhaps Canada, the saucers were left to their own devices by the local inhabitants, during which time they devastated the fragile biome and depleted the area’s strategic spime pits, all while repeatedly trying to pay their bills with worthless confederate “greybacks.”
Three weeks later, the previously infertile Mary Dodson Price would give birth to an otherworldly pair of twin boys. Coincidentally, the twins were also nicknamed “greybacks,” as were all the godless, ash-colored abominations born that accursed day - the 3rd of November, 1907.