A hundred and twenty cycles have passed since the Collapse. Refugees have met, sometimes forming stable communities. Others have drifted, never to be heard from again.

Daily in our garden in the town we call Acceptance, I ponder the overt symbol of the need to remember, not the horror, but the path of society and and the power of people to change the very nature of reality.

End of Series
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Thank you for attending. Questions, comments, rebuttals, and interpretations are more than welcome. 

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Shaking with shock and weakened from the journey, the heretic was repeatedly disoriented in the ruined cityscape. Time and again set to backtrack or avoid still flaming structures, they had failed to notice the failing light.

Taking shelter from the smoke in the lee of a broken stone wall, the heretic paused again, retching in grief. How all this came to be and then not be was beyond all comprehension.

Had not the people developed both in culture and mind to otherwise unachieved heights? Why was the destruction so complete? Most critically, why had the heretic failed to capture a solution to prevent this Collapse?

Looking up, the great steps of the Temple of Empathy came into view, strewn with every manner of smashed thing.

Dashing, heart pounding, the heretic entered the Temple. The great vaulted ceiling having burned out, failing light illuminated the final despair within. Stillness and death.

Near the center of this ruination, a dim shade flickered, then dissipated entirely.

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After parting ways with the fading Apathy, the heretic sought high ground to determine the source of the smoke. The scent of it on the air was wrong somehow, stirring a dread akin to desperation. 

Nowhere was the sun to be seen so they struck out on the game trail leading away from Apathy's retreat, searching the skies for an indication of the sun's location. Swirling flakes of dark ash clung like snow and stung the eye.

But the smoke seemed unending, and deepening even as the mountains became hills and the hills flattened to plains. Having made an arrow's path towards where the inland Sea should be was rewarded with orientation. 

Turning to parallel the shore, four more days past before they saw the markers.  Then finally Sea Gate, everywhere choked with ash-covered bodies among smoldering ruins of the City.

Not knowing what else to do, sobbing, the heretic skirted seemingly endless vacant remains towards where Empathy's Temple might have still stood.



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