The Destructives (The Seizure Trilogy Book 3)

by Matthew De Abaitua

Without emotions, a being cannot prioritise information, and therefore cannot act. Emotion is necessary for survival.

Disapproval was conveyed through complements which only a skilful and experienced practitioner of meetings could decode.

Highly conscious beings inhabit a fiction. True realism is only available to the earlier stages of consciousness.

What Theodore enjoyed most about Pre-Seizure culture was the ease in which people accepted the paradox of using mass-produced objects to express their individuality. It must have taken generations of acceleration to instil such instinctive compliance, to make the people accept a culture reduced to a single question – who am I – and a million wrong answers.

power will conceal its true intent for as long as possible so that its victims remain passive and even compliant in their own destruction. Rarely are we granted the mercy of a confrontation.