Gravity

Introduction

On the twelfth hour on the first day of October, 1989, forty-three women around the world gave birth.

This was unusual only in the fact that none of these women had been pregnant when the day first began.

Sir Reginald Hargreeves, eccentric billionaire and adventurer, resolved to locate and adopt as many of the children as possible.

He got eight of them.

He declined to give them names himself, instead numbering the children in the order he had acquired them. 

Number One is on the moon, on a mission from their father.

Number Two is on the run, a masked vigilante with violent methods.

Number Three is on the red carpet, her career tipping on a dangerous precipice.

Number Four is speeding through the streets in an ambulance, overdosed again.

Number Five is missing, went missing years ago.

Number Six is dead, they said it was an accident.

Number Seven is living, though thriving would certainly be a stretch.

And Number Eight is neither dead nor living, but watching and waiting in a place without time.