Cast of Characters

1. Apung Lucia - looks ancient and withered. Around her you will feel great wisdom. She has infinite patience, willing to wait out problems until solutions present themselves. She looks like she's nearing her hundreds. In reality she is nearly 300 years old and was present at the founding of KKK. She is now looking at her young followers for her successor.

Apung Lucia comes from The Ancients -- another sect (race?) that practices a rigorous lifestyle and diet such that they live for hundreds of years.

2. Aya - one of the young assistants of Apung Lucia's sect. Aya has been entrusted with a lot of crucial information about SV, including its treasury. Little does Aya know that she is being groomed to be the next leader of SV, and will actually be the prophesied leader who will activate the second revolution.

3. Sen. Liamson - a former activist turned military officer turned senator. Liamson suffered as a child in a poor family and learned the hard way about how to get out of poverty. He is a contradiction of moral values -- a devout Catholic but cold in his willingness to eliminate obstacles to what he thinks is the right path.

Liamson allies with Apung Lucia in order to penetrate her organization and destroy it. Our story begins in the middle of Liamson's plot to discredit SV by destroying the reputation of Apung Lucia (by implicating her in a pyramiding scam and a syndicate that kidnaps poor children and fielding them as beggars).

4. Estong - a "taong grasa" with a unique power. He can project visions directly into the minds of people. Depending on his whim, the projections can appear as visions or as direct 3-D movies that seem to be projected in front of the viewers' eyes.

5. Chacha - a little girl with down syndrome. Her power is ___