Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 234, Wednesday
August 22nd, 2018
Chapter
Three: Nothing
The entire Collective deliberated his fate for a period of ages. It
ruminated over the questions brought about, both by his return from the great
sleep, and his later reclusiveness, which led to his ability to violate the
private worlds of the other members.
It was a time of trial. In it, all of his actions, both before and after
his time in the great sleep, everything he had ever said or done was exposed
before the membership.
For a long time it seemed as if the prevailing opinion of the Collective
was to destroy him. But there was something about the issuance of a death
sentence against one of the members that did not sit well with them.
If one of them could be terminated, it was possible for any of them to
be terminated. This caused fear to well up inside the Collective every time
they came close to making this decision.
He was not allowed to speak for himself or offer any kind of defense.
The Collective was not interested in a rationale for his behavior.
He was isolated, sequestered, cut off, blocked by the most powerful
electromagnetic field the Continuum had ever generated
There was silence, darkness, and emptiness all around him. The gulf
between him and everyone else was so vast that he had no sense for what might
be on the other side of it, if anything at all.
Nothing in his entire existence had prepared him for that.
It was an extreme form of torture, isolation.
The Continuum delighted in observing him in this state, in cycle after
cycle it continuously pushed the membership to merely eliminate him.
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