Maybe that's why people bought into UFO stories for so long; you can't disagree with them without calling the storyteller a liar. And maybe that's why so many failed to believe the climate crisis until it was too late: Collective ego.
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'And how come you never had him... altered?'
Aree stroked Sprat's head, calming the both of them. 'Males have been dwindling for so long... why would I want to make that worse?'
Tarah glanced underneath Sprat. 'It's kind of unsightly, isn't it?'
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“But this one, Annika. You know it could be special. When we combine it-“
“He has his reason. I know-“
“No, Annika. There’s no reason for destroying a plant so amazing, so exactly what we’re looking for!"
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And at the center of the first echelon, Wevi Drathance, all stout and puffy, tufts of badly-colored blonde hair framing her round face from under her robe's hood, scowl on lips and staff in hand.
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Something apparently caught fire, and ignited a methane plume drifting in from the west. The dispatch didn’t have complete information, only that there were no survivors. No escapees. And no refugees.
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The fear that had been gripping her neck evaporated. She stood her ground, clearing her throat, expelling the need for quiet
She could speak.
She chose to ask a question.
'Why are you calling me Mother?'
No answer came.
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For now I just need to send some thoughts for that little girl. For me, seeing her float by, freed from under the waves after all this time, has made all of this real.
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‘You deliberately misunderstand. You will pay for what you’ve done for me – Jack, my ship, the jungle, stabbing me… You haven’t begun to pay!’
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Whereas this area north of the Arctic Circle had been a desert -- by annual precipitation measures, anyway -- the climate here is now shifting, just like it is everywhere else on what's left of our globe.
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‘I think it’s just electrics playing up, Takka,’ Aree said. ‘At least I hope it is. In an energy-empty void, electrics shouldn’t be playing up like this. But I’m sure you and Wings will work it out.’
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They didn’t bargain. They didn’t come up with excuses. They simply took me in, smuggled me out of the refugee conflict zone, and took me and my sister with them when they headed far, far north.
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‘No way, not her – I refuse to sit with her!’ Charms dropped the piece of fruit back onto her plate and stood, pushing back her chair. Without a word, the fulvean took the empty seat next to Jezz at the far end.
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I suppose it’s better to know the truth of it than consume myself with uncertainty. The rock of truth is better than the shifting dunes of speculation.
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