Malachi Blake looked irritated. He felt irritated to his core. He popped a green-blue pill into his mouth and swallowed.
“I said we need to move the outlying populations to our center strongholds throughout Earth by the end of the year, and this nonsensical bullshit needs to end!” Kai said, with a passion that couldn’t begin to express the weight he felt on his shoulders.
“But sir,” said Kalyan Sood, the deputy of the Byzantine Pyrἰnas, “certain individuals do not want to move off their land that’s been handed down and fought over for generations, just to be placed in 3D-printed, concrete jungles.”
“Do they understand what’s at stake?” said Kai, trying to control the anger swelling inside him. “I understand the attachments that they have to their parcels of land, but the future of Earth is at stake. The future of humanity. If we don’t pool and concentrate all available resources, we will not be able to fight back against Proxima Borealis and wherever else the damned clones have spread to; and mankind itself is our greatest resource.”
“I and the six other continental deputies understand, Consul,” stated Sood again. “We are doing all we can to appease the individuals in question. Perhaps, Odina could make an appearance? If she sent out a world-wide holo-cast explaining the need for their displacement, I’m sure this transition would be much smoother.”
Sood had no fear of speaking what needed to be said. Kai admired him and trusted him the most because of this.
“I will talk to Odina and ask for her help. I would’ve hoped that being Consul of Earth would be enough for them to do as I ask, but religions hold more power than governments sometimes.” Kai was struggling to contain himself now.
He took another green-blue pill, as the first one was taking too long to take effect.
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“You need to stop popping those pills like candy.”
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“I know Kalyan, but the weight of this position is taking a toll on me,” Kai said wearily, burdened by thoughts of how to mitigate the numerous problems that inflicted Lux Orbis, and failing to see why he needed to press so hard for humans to do what was best for the majority. “They help me think clearly.”
“You need to let myself and the other continental deputies help more. Give them a free hand to do what is best for humanity, in the name of the Consul of Earth and Lux Orbis,” said Kalyan. He could see the toll being taken on his friend and looked to lighten his burden. “Trust your hand-picked leaders, the best of Earth, to carry out initiatives in your name. What would our global government be without trust between the Continental Deputies and the Consul?”
But Kalyan didn’t know just how much a role the Nova Gnosis had played in the choosing of these leaders. Kai did.
“I will take it under advisement Kalyan, thank you. For now, though, I need some time alone to sit and contemplate; I need to seek the best course through this dangerous time.”
“Take care, my friend” said Kalyan as he walked out the door, looking worriedly back at his Consul.
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Even after sixteen years, Kai was astounded by his meteoric rise. He had been a nobody, a middle-class worker whose father and father’s father had been sycophants to the local feudal warlords in South America. And now he was the leader of Earth—and a constant target of assassination attempts.
He remembered Odina’s proclamation to Earth all those years ago, and the whirling changes that ensued. Personal conflicts were put aside. Everyone instantly knew how to read and write, to think objectively, and to reclaim the lost knowledge. Some were more adept than others, but that’s why Nova Gnosis provided the green-blue pills, a low-concentrated dose of the Susurrus Odina had brought all those years ago. Susurrus unlocked memories and opportunities in a person’s mind; as a counter agent to the genetically designed virus that the clones had infected humans with thousands of years ago; these green-blue pills provided a boost of energy unlike any other drug mankind had ever discovered before.
Kai felt insidious fury at the clones when Odina revealed to everyone what they had done. Millions of children stolen from Earth; a virus that clones bred themselves to be immune to, but which erased the collective memories of mankind. Everything that contained remnants of knowledge had been sabotaged by the clones, and then they disappeared, leaving their makers in a seemingly endless dark age. Humanity had been reset to the day their first ancestors crawled out of the oceans.
They wouldn’t make that mistake again.
Kai and humanity had Odina and Nova Gnosis on their side. Kai didn’t agree with all their methods, but he knew what his role was in this epic.