The Singularity: Emissaries: (The Singularity 37) by David Beers

Author:David Beers [Beers, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-03-16T22:00:00+00:00

The Life of Caesar Wells

by Leon Bastille

Caesar didn't see all the things growing around him. He couldn't. To him, to Jerry—to all of us really—this was one side versus the other. Us against it. Caesar and The Genesis. Caesar wanted to find it and face it down, wanted to perhaps converse and then kill it. It seems like a great story really, something that would make for a great afternoon movie on an entertainment center. Good versus evil. One side trying to slay the other and both of them meeting on a field of battle.

I don't know why we were so stupid.

This wasn't a movie.

Jerry should have known, if anyone should have. Jerry had lived for a thousand years; he'd seen everything that happened under The Genesis' reign, and yet, somehow he thought things would be so simple. He thought Caesar was going to walk right into The Genesis' house, they'd have a little talk, and then Caesar would shut the whole thing down.

All the while, so much was happening around us, so many plans growing like vines, and we stood there with blinders on unable to see the strangling weeds wrapping around our legs and heading for our necks.

Caesar was going to speak with his parents and learn more about what could be done. Are you understanding that? This deep in and Caesar was going to talk with someone to try to fucking learn more. What in the hell were we doing? What in the hell were we allowing him to do?

We should have gone to Vegas. Right then. All of us, Caesar included. We should have rewired the place and shot electricity through those ancient buildings. We should have created a little society out there in the desert and not worried about the rest. But even Grace was done telling Caesar to quit. I was stubborn, and kept talking, but who was going to listen to me? Little Leon, always pleading The Genesis' case, always trying to stop the fight against the juggernaut. I never wanted to go against The Genesis, obviously, but that didn't mean it was smart to discount everything I said, regardless of the intellects above me. Little Leon, ready to scurry off to some dead city and live out his life.

Everyone listened to Caesar, even Paige—albeit reluctantly. Everyone followed his obsession, an obsession that had grown even greater than Jerry's. Those that could see, or at least see a bit, decided to follow the blind.

Because that's what Caesar was at this point. Blind. He saw nothing but an image inside his head, an idea—freedom, vengeance, his own death? I don't know which one it was for sure, only that he thought he saw it in reality, but it existed only in his head, so he chased it, but when the blind decide to run, they almost always hit something.

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