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The Truth About Lying
to gamble her life on a species that just spent the last month
trying to destroy itself."
Henry closed his eyes. "I can't promise we'll pass. But I
can promise that if we choose Extraction, we'll deserve to
fail. Your daughter will grow up in a universe where
humanity proved it couldn't be trusted with power. Where
we chose self-preservation over everything we claim to
value."
Silence on the line. Then: "I'm coming to whatever
meeting you're organizing. But I'm bringing the Extraction
numbers with me. If we can't build something better in
seventy-two hours, I'm voting to save who we can."
"Fair enough," Henry said.
"And Henry? I hope you're right. I really, really hope
you're right."
The line went dead.
Over the next six hours, they assembled a coalition in an
abandoned convention center—the only space large enough
to hold everyone. Hundreds of people, representing dozens
of countries and disciplines, all united by the knowledge
that they had less than three days to save their species.
But unity was fragile. The room quickly fractured into
camps.
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