Heathrow Airport, London, United Kingdom.
Sarah Schneider, an American college student studying in Britain for the fall semester waits in line to board Pan Am Flight 103 bound for New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
On 5 December 1988 (16 days prior to the flight), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a security bulletin saying that on that day a man with an Arabic accent had telephoned the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki, Finland, and had told them that a Pan Am flight from Frankfurt to the United States would be blown up within the next two weeks by someone associated with the Abu Nidal Organization.
On 18 December 1988 (2 days prior to the flight), security forces in a number of European countries, including Britain, were put on alert after a warning from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) that extremists might launch terrorist attacks to undermine the then ongoing dialogue between the United States and the PLO.
As Ms. Schneider entered the Jet Bridge a faint rustle of the wind though window could be heard.
Overhead, and unobserved by any of the other passengers, an inter-dimensional portal materializes in an otherwise clear sky. Golden light shimmers though a jagged opening in the Jet Bridge. Though the streaming light, a mass of prismatic tendrils materialize over the passengers eventually enveloping Ms. Schneider. Surrounded in the sensual embrace of the tendrils, she looks up, her smile now serene.
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