Category: Infinity’s Beginning

I did not know about the following dialog until much later, when I was able to review my father’s surveillance videos. He was in the habit of keeping an encrypted recording of all meetings in his private study. Here is what I was able to recover from those recordings; “Lord!” said Standt with a crisp…

My next uninvited guest was my father. When he strode in after Standt’s quiet departure, I was shocked by how much larger he had been in my memory. I realized that I had grown a great deal in the two years since our last audience. “Either you are a brilliant strategist, or you are suicidal,”…

I was born into wealth. To some, this might be understood to mean that I had an idyllic childhood. They would be wrong. My people have many laws and rules. One of the strictest rules is that families who are out of favor are fair game. That is to say, others may feel free to…

I was certain death had taken me. Failure. I knew it was a possibility, but it had been the only hope. The walls, the structure of our very universe had been falling inward. Something had to be done. My people were a harsh, cruel and selfish society, but they were mine. I could not accept…