[ WP ] Everyone inexplicably woke up in the body of another person

It was all over the news. 
 
 Or, at least, it would have been, if the news channels had been running. Flights across the world were booked up as people desperately tried to get home, trying in vain to communicate with others in languages they did n't speak. Suburban housewives found themselves waking up in the middle of Zambia among strangers, and tribal leaders found themselves arising alone in Parisian lofts. 
 
 Those who could communicate cried that it had been an act of an angry god on a world that lacked empathy. Many of those who could n't communicate or could n't travel home perished, by the hands of others and by their own minds ( the really unfortunate ones perished from terminal illness and other more natural causes ). Televisions showed nothing but static, since those qualified to run them were miles and miles away, and governments across the world were shut down. Kim Jong-un woke up in the body of a twelve-year-old girl in Afghanistan, and a Sri Lankan boy woke up the President of the United States. 
 
 For many, it was considered the end of the world. No one knew what to make of things anymore, and children were waking up in Guantanamo Bay, where the guards they could only sometimes communicate with did n't know how to free them. 
 
 It was only in their confusion and fear that the world knew unity, and it was only out of horror that all people, across all races, genders, and backgrounds, joined together to figure out just what they had done wrong.
