I only hope that we may leave behind something more than they did. A few bones preserved in amber, the contents of their stomachs, their waste. The dinosaurs left behind almost no trace of themselves. This is not intended as a record or a chronicle, but as a lamentation, the poetry of fossils, a reminiscence of the end of the era of civilization. We survivors are bloodied, we are broken, we are defeated. Cast out of our own kingdom, we roam the outlands in search of a miracle. They wear their faces now, the faces of our familiars, our Dear Ones. They have taken from us our neighbors, our friends, our families. Our future is no longer the natural organic decay of death but a complex and diabolical transmutation.
THE FERRYMAN IS GONE ON LABYRINTH OF LIES NANCY DREW CODE
The basic tenets of human biology have been rewritten, not in DNA code but in blood and in virus. There are no longer any givens, any absolutes-no root to our existence. We allowed it to happen because we never believed it could happen. The first stage of public response to any epidemic is always Denial.Īll the usual scarecrows were trotted out as distractions: economic woes, social unrest, the racial scapegoating, terrorist threats.īut in the end, it was just us. It became a Late Night pun, smart-asses that we were, hardy-har-har-until dusk fell upon us and we turned to face an immense, uncaring void. Leaving us longing for daylight when it was ours no more…Īll this mere days after our “uncontestable video evidence” reached the world-its truth drowned in thousands of smirking rebuttals and parodies that YouTube’d us beyond all hope.
And we were there to account for it-our omissions, our arrogance…īy the time the crisis went to Congress, and was analyzed, legislated, and ultimately vetoed, we had already lost. It took the world just sixty days to end.
CH Extract from the diary of Ephraim Goodweather This one is for Lorenza, with all my love.
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