And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people

I came here with my two daughters, seeking shelter from the bombing. I'm thirteen and I followed my older brother into the tunnel because he's an idiot with no self-preservation instinct and way too much lust for exploration. Our team found three skeletons, one adult male, two female children, in the ruins. Jacob stumbled upon a grey metallic orb nearby. She gazed into the sphere and it somehow rendered my wife catatonic. Or was it me? I can't hold all those people in my head and it feels like it's going to explode but it doesn't stop and doesn't stop...