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“Here in the studio it seemingly coincided with the launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the ISS. It is likely just a coincidence, but tune in later to hear more.”
“Well that was odd.” Dave sighed.
“I''m just glad that I''m not going crazy, or at least that everyone else heard it as well.”
“The whole world is going crazy.”
He drove back home.
Dave grabbed a box of nails and gloves from the garage. Walking to the broken window he carefully considered how to best fix this. There were still bits of glass stuck in the window, so he put on the gloves and removed them, carefully. Nailing the sheet metal to the outside was tricky, but he got it done.
He touched the metal, it was very cold. A major problem for the temperature of his kitchen. The garage had some old rockwool laying around from fixing minor problems around the house. He cut a piece of insulation into shape and stuffed it into the cavity from the inside. Then he nailed another piece of sheet metal over the window to lock the insulation inside.
With the window finally fixed and itchy from the insulation, he went inside for a hot shower.
After the bath he waited until he was dry and nailed another two sheets over the window to his pantry, just in case.
The next nine months were relatively uneventful, no more strange noises swarms of animals or other stuff.
For him, that is.
The rest of the world were dealing with increasingly odd occurrences.
Animals were becoming more intelligent, there was no doubt about it. They developed other abilities from this intelligence. Up to and including actual speech and comprehension for ravens and some parrots. Anything believed to be fully sapient was declared a protected species. This law mostly protected above mentioned birds, a lot of whales and elephants.
There was an Indian elephant that had learned to read and write.
Other animals developed interesting abilities suggesting some increase in intelligence, but nothing as incredible as full sapience seen in some exceptions.
One notable outlier were insects. They had started increasing in size, while at the same time decreasing in number.
Dave was really happy that he did not have to deal with this change yet, as it was the deepest winter where his little house was positioned.
Stories from Australia had made him consider how far north he could move with his salary.
Plants down south had begun growing more in size, vibrancy or in other aspects that ended in entirely new abilities. Such as some, individual, trees of a species developing rudimentary traps for insects, while others did not.
On an entirely different note. Particle physics were in turmoil. Positrons were far more strongly affected by gravity, by as much as five times, whatever the consequences of that may be. On the macroscopic level very little had changed.
Dave kept feeding the wolf.
He decided to name it Lydia.