'This is so hard. A lot of it I don't know myself.' She looked
across at him. 'Please be patient, and let me choose my words.'
'It's all right. I am patient.'
After several halting starts, she saw there was no other way but to tell
him straight out. Let him understand or believe what he would.
'A long time ago, many hundreds of years I think, there were
infinitely more people on earth. Our civilization had advance so far,
that we could build or do almost anything. We lived in cities as high
as this mountain, and many times as broad, all over the world.
'Unfortunately, one of the things we built the best were weapons,
devices to..... Well, the argument was that they were to protect
ourselves. But really, they had no other purpose than to kill. Some of
the more primitive of these are in the Mantis' cave, though I have no
idea how they got there.' It was useless.
'We destroyed ourselves, Kalus. I don't know how else to say it.
I suppose there were reasons for the War, and in fairness I don't
think either side wanted it. But it happened all the same. We launched
weapons that could kill millions of people from thousands of miles away,
and go on killing years after..... I don't know why I was left
alive.' DON'T CRY. 'All my friends and family are dead.
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