It’s always okay to admit when you don’t know something. If you couldn’t do this, you would never truly know anything. - Hugh Howey

The suit came up, and Holston thought that maybe people went along with it because they couldn't believe it was happening. None of it was real enough to rebel against. The animal part of his mind wasn't made for this, to be calmly ushered to a death it was perfectly aware of.

Swiveling in his old wooden chair, the legs squeaking as if startled by the sudden movement, he glanced at the clock on the wall behind him and surveyed the time imprisoned behind its yellowed and crazed plastic dome.

No life had ever been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Everything comes to an end.