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The Truth About Lying
Henry had told himself he was just doing his job. That someone else would do it if he didn't. That he was providing a service in a complex world.
But Dr. Sharma was right. He wasn't solving problems. He was making it easier for dangerous people to keep being dangerous.
Present day.
April 30, 2028
Henry sat on the bench, the news article still glowing on his phone. The story had broken. The truth had come out anyway. All his careful architecture had collapsed.
Dr. Sharma had gone to the press. She'd released the memos. She'd testified before Congress. She'd done what Henry had spent his career preventing: she'd made the truth impossible to ignore.
And she'd lost everything. Her career was over. She was facing lawsuits from Cerulean for breach of contract. The last paragraph of the article mentioned she'd checked herself into a psychiatric facility, unable to cope with the weight of what she'd witnessed.
She'd told the truth, and it had destroyed her. He had built lies, and they'd destroyed him.
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