365 Days of Drabbles: Day One Hundred-Thirty

[jeriendhal]

For avanti_90: "The end point of human evolution"
 
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"This is not promising," Tony noted, shading his eyes against sun, or at least what was left of it. The Earth's sky was still blue, but the sun has faded from bright yellow to a deepening red, as their time machine recovered from its several billion year flight.

No buildings, his MindSage noted, or other signs of habitation. It may have been abandoned.

"I'm still betting on Morlocks. I doubt any Eloi could have survived here."

I agree.

"So if nothing recognizably human still lives, who do we talk to?"

"THE EARTH ITSELF," came the answer, from all around them.

Comments

[rix_scaedu]

That was not what they were expecting, was it?

[shadur.livejournal.com]

Kind of like, after having scaled a huge mountain, planting your flag on the top of the mountain and hearing the mountain say "ouch."

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Something like that yes. hehe

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

8[

"We should go."