A Sea of Deceit
War crimes. As if everything had gone wrong at the same time, as if no one cared, as if the dread much of the world's population felt was a real thing, an evil mist seeping across the planet. While in this remote spot those strange white fledglings, barely out of their eggshells, lined the cliffs and waited.
Time sweeps before us all; and here, he had to begin again.
The fuel crisis meant the entire country was imperilled. And yet, here we were, in some kind of false dawn, an Indian summer after an entirely indifferent summer, which in Australia officially stretched from December to February.
Here, on 17 April, 2026, deliberate, terrifying, those who held power misused it, and those who sought oblivion destroyed themselves, and the cosy middle class comforts that the aging cohorts of the area clutched to themselves, they, too, were being swept aside.
He stared in horror. He didn't understand what was happening, the way the spirits moved through the trees and the wind picked across the paddocks and the cattle made their way home through the evening light, and the sky lit up in a spectacular display of graded pinks, deep turmoil.
While elsewhere, in this interconnected age, blood spilled in ancient wars covered the ground.
And the sense of disbelief, that it was all coming to an end, sank further and further into their dishevelled psyches.
What was the purpose of all this chaos?
It had to begin somewhere. It had to begin again. There was no choice in the matter, none at all.
Unless you wanted to die in abject misery; and that, of course, was always an option.
Everything they had once believed turned out to be false.
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