It's 2016.

The earth, as we know it, is still doing alright. There haven't been any major wars in a while, nor have there been any acts of terrorism on any area in the world. There were no apocalyptic or cataclysmic events in the past 20-ish years. There were no radiation spikes, no strange astronomical phenomenons, no weird chemical spills over large areas of land, nothing. Everything is perfectly fine in the world, perfectly normal. Everything should be in perfect working order.

Except... something happened. Something completely unexplainable.

Roughly 23 years prior, some children were born under...strange circumstances. They weren't unhealthy by any means, that wasn't the problem. The problem is, they were born with features that  aren't supposed to be on human beings. They were born with horns, or antlers, or cat ears, or they had strange lizard eyes, snake tongues-- and it just happened. No explanation whatsoever, there were just thousands of these children suddenly, this wave of babies, that had these features, and then it went away, and the phenomenon never happened again. And, of course, when humans are faced with something they don't understand, they panic, and they get scared, and they discriminate. And that's what happened to these children.

Fast forward. Modern day. Those children are now adults, and they are realizing--now more than ever--that while there are a lot of people who are very accepting of their... abnormalities, there are an equal amount of people who absolutely despise it. They face these problems every day, and they deal with it, in their own ways. They talk to each other, they become friends, they stand up for each other.They make c onnections. And sometimes, those connections can evolve into something more. 

And this is where the story of Avery Prescott and Lilith Fairfax begins.