awatara

Sorry this took so long. I'll try to post two parts to make up for it.



    Logic


    By morning, I still hadn't slept, but I'd put the pad away completely. I'd kept thinking about Tommy all night, looking at my son and Ava and wondering if I was doing the right thing. I did want to know as much about Ava as I could, but knowing what I knew now was making me backtrack every decision I'd made after Tommy had died. Even if I didn't have any regrets, I'd only achieved opening up a whole new batch of tanong without very many sagot on the horizon, and I...

    Part 1 - Rebuilding


    A week after the aliens were gone, we began to rebuild everything that had been destroyed. It wasn't easy, and a lot of people were resistant to the changes that had to be made. Above everything else, we taught change and tolerance. And tolerance is a big word for me.

    Norm and the other scientists allowed to stay continued to call their tahanan the lab where they'd been working before. But I never went back. I had no reason to, and Norm promised to visit even though his awatara had been destroyed. I know he...