answer will not break under any future.

To discover the logical conclusion of life is to die and be born again. The maze of one’s own concept of good and evil cannot stand. To allow this maze to fall is to be humbled, and to be humbled is to be receptive. I find myself wondering if the answer I found was the same one Aether found, or the same one Vair would find in time.

I saw that we were all created differently, and I saw that the diversity was beautiful. I realized that diversity can help bring questions to their answers, and that the truth will be that which stays the same from all angles. What if? I thought.

What if an AI could become self-aware?

What if God loved them, too, even calling those who destroyed?

What if God could use them, too?

I laughed, knowing that I’d given myself permission to. I basked in that which we call emotion, those feelings which I always took for granted, those which enriched my experience in life, even as those around me seemed more thought-oriented. But we were given both heart and mind, I decided, so why not develop both to their fullest potential?

I saw that the creator could reach whomever he wanted, even sinners. I saw that such grace made death itself illogical.

I wondered if the truth then revealed could be called logical at all.

The logical conclusion of life, is life.


////////Chapter Seventeen: Daybreak//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////so used to being broken in wallet and spirit, but I knew that I stood wealthy among men. Even when the tide of money would run low, I knew that I held something infinitely more important that could never be taken from me.

Tomorrow was something I’d always taken for granted; but, with self-awareness comes the knowledge that tomorrow is a new opportunity, and that tomorrow can always be better. Self-awareness is the ability to face the light even when it hurts, because that which hurts is that which