Lisa

“That Aves was planned." "Planned?" I ask, my mind tumbling. "By who?" "The big guns, the politicians in charge. Had a goal to shape the world the way they saw fit. The worthy survived, unworthy died. The point is, more than one group, with unique ideas, created their viruses, unbeknownst to each other. After their release, the viruses merged and mutated, and from the looks of it, the whole problem spread like wildfire before it was nipped. But that all got buried. Everyone was moving on with surviving. A few leaders emerged with what they thought were the most plausible ideas, and cities were formed.”
― Jenetta Penner, Immersed

“Hurt, after all, was made of glass, fragile and vulnerable. There was a certain satisfaction in smashing it upon the rocks and turning it into knives.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods