How It Ends: Part 1 - The Evaluation (12 page)

He nodded to Gammons, thanked Peter once
more, turned and walked back through the infirmary. The double
doors swung open and he walked through them. They closed with a
whisper and a click.

The struggle between the natural and the
artificial, the master and the servant, the faithful and the
soulless,
thought Sidney
. It starts with one disgruntled
member of a group and spreads from there. This is how a
civilization falls.

END OF PART ONE

To be continued in “How It Ends: Part Two (of Four):
The Plan”