Publisher's Synopsis
The windowed wall caught his eye as the last glimmers of daylight stretched over the horizon. Tiny flakes blown and tossed by the bitter winds reminded him of what was coming. Everything reminded him. Reaching over his shoulder, he switched on the only light in the room. Then he re-read the words he had left behind in the book, his lips set in a grim line."He told me he's finished. He's unwilling to wait any longer for them to become who they were meant to be, continually reiterating that he's given them all the opportunities he could afford them. And now he says they've gone too far.Reasoning with him was a futile effort. When I suggested, not for the first time, that they were never given a genuine opportunity, not with the way the experiment was constructed, he shook his head, almost laughing. When I told him that darkness easily infected them from their inception, spreading like a virus and shrouding their purpose behind lies, he said he couldn't disagree, but he would not change his mind. And when I argued that it blinds them to all they could become and how extraordinary their lives could have been, he merely nodded and shrugged.I'm so confused. Does he not love them? Why does he not seem to care? I know that I would have exposed its lies, if I'd been allowed. I would have walked with them, guided them. Perhaps then they would have recognized the truth of who they are rather than fragmenting themselves into nations and factions and colors. All he did was shake his head.But this cannot be the end. I cannot accept that their existence has been for nothing. Perhaps it's time for me to follow my own convictions and to publicly disavow the doctrines and stories they use to justify their behaviors. But would it be better for them to know the truth before the end or to just leave them be? I have serious doubts that anything I could do would open their eyes in the little time I have left, though it pains me to admit it, knowing what's coming. And now that the earth is demanding justice, their final judgment has already begun.Leaving them in their ignorance may be more merciful, but if I'm going to do anything that will make any difference at all, it has to be now. When I ask myself what is the right thing to do, I find I've known the answer all along. If there were any other way..."
