I saw it all coming. I just didn’t know how to stop it. The end. I saw the skies growing dark with the heavy smoke of drone engines. I saw the red lines on the black monitors devouring the code that could have kept the systems online. I saw the light of the world becoming extinct. Even my father was unable to stop the inevitable—the gleaming buildings transformed into lifeless monoliths consumed by the forked tongues of hellfire.

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As my dark sister reveled inside the sulfur discharges, I stared deep into the roaring flames and forged a new determination.

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This end would be my beginning.

 

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