Emergence 3.0
A Novel – One Page Per Day
Day 012, Friday
January 12th, 2018
Chapter Five: Confusion
Now that she was here, sitting at the table across from him, Jim was unsure
of his motive.
There was nothing in his plan that required him to see her today. He had
tested every contingency and knew what the tolerances were for the things he
needed her to do after he was gone.
There was something else happening in him related to why he asked her to
see him, something unfamiliar, and he had to consider if he might be feeling
guilt, or shame over what he was about to do.
Jim had to ask himself; what
difference would it make seeing her today?
The plan he had enacted would proceed. He could not tell her what was about
to happen. It was vital to his plan that she be surprised.
Tens of thousands of years of evolution had brought him to this point,
had brought both of them to this moment; selective breeding, careful
manipulations of the genetic code, endless patience, had brought them both to
this point.
The last few decades had been the most delicate, guiding her, educating
her, defusing threats all around her, and bringing her to this moment, bringing
both of them to the crux of this situation.
He could not help but to get lost in reverie, the moment he had been striving
for had come.
The distance he had journeyed since the time he had awakened to his
purpose. It was surreal.
His fate, the very real prospect of death, the fate of the galaxy hinged
on everything that would transpire between him and Kathy in the next few days.
Timing was everything, and like everything it was fluid, in motion,
subject to external variables.
The plan must come to fruition exactly as he had planned, a line of
continuity cutting through trillions of possibilities
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