before dawn we pulled into a small cottage, it was a one bedroom hideaway, on high ground. abandoned by whomever lived here, no trace of their identity left, not a clue except they were efficient when it comes to stripping their home, even the light bulbs were missing. i found a few candles and lit them, i checked the water, it would take a couple of hours for the boiler to kick in, so i made a comfortable bed up and got some sleep on the sofa while cat girl and her furry friend slept on the mattress in the bedroom.
i wandered around a little, then fell asleep on the sofa. 
as i drifted off, events began to focus. it started about 20 years ago, the building, and although the construction was kept hidden from the public we all knew it was there. when they unveiled it of course it was just a regular government building but information has a habit of leaking and most people with their ear to the ground knew it was some sort of experimental military project. some said it was a place they did research on aliens, others suggested it was a vast network of computers, echelon, monitoring all tele communications in the southern hemisphere, others said it was a stargate type wormhole, designed to make interstellar travel possible and then the blue prints leaked out.
no one was really sure what it was except it was a portal, the design was non human, no one could understand it. it was posted online on various sites and the comment threads all seemed to speculate and then it began to gain exposure. first a breakfast tv station showed it as a novelty item and asked people to phone in their ideas in a competition. government spokespeople gave their five cents worth and denied any covert operation and then during a live interview one of the scientists who worked there confessed it was a weapon, a singularity bomb. no one took him seriously, i mean what the fuck is a singularity bomb?
people laughed, the media went nuts, the scientist was dismissed as a crackpot. he shot himself, blew his skull up with a sawn off shot gun, people wrote books about the singularity hoax and then months later when everyone stopped talking about it, it detonated. actually detonated implied an explosion, singularity bombs don't actually explode, they leak.
i guess you could call it anti matter, it pours into our world like an invisible gas, altering everything, changing the properties of matter.