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We dive so humanity survives.”
he also knew that grasping on to false hope was worse than facing reality head-on.
When he had the sudden, overwhelming gut feeling that this could be the last chance he ever had to take care of Tin, he started walking faster.
X
The boy was only ten years old. Ten goddamn years old and talking like an adult. As with most kids these days, he hadn’t had a childhood.
Tin
He put his hand gently on Tin’s shoulder for a moment. For the past year, X had done his duty and dived without much thought beyond a hangover and a death wish. But feeling the boy’s back move up and down reminded him that there was something in this world still worth living for and protecting.
Motivation!
He had known it before, but seeing the armored vehicles, and the monster crater a few days before, reminded him that people had done this. Humans had destroyed this world.
In the end, it hadn’t been a storm that finally brought down the Hive. It had been a bullet.
(Punctured gas bladder)
Ash was tired. Tired of fighting gravity, tired of fighting the lower-deckers, tired of fighting the cancer.
Brushing with death for days had taught him to suppress any glimmer of hope.
Weaver
The snowflakes fluttering down to earth were beautiful. One could almost forget they were radioactive.
opening your heart to someone was worth the risk. Even if you lost them. Especially if you lost them. “What’s the point of living if you push everyone away?” she asked.
He didn’t know what the Sirens were or where they had come from, but one thing was clear: the bombs dropped by his ancestors hadn’t just destroyed the Old World—they had created a new one and populated it with monsters.
Finding a divine reason seemed disrespectful to the memories of everyone else who had died. Why was he so lucky? Why would God save only him? There was no simple answer, nothing to explain the air in his lungs or his beating heart.
The monster soared through the sky. It was almost elegant, the way it caught the air currents. Even as it closed on him, X found himself marveling that somehow these creatures had survived in this harsh environment. Maybe it was the next step in evolution on earth. Maybe humans’ time was indeed over.
