Burning Sky, Makayla Graham (11

If This, then That, cont.

Our only use was to be studied and for that, we needed to be controlled. If there is one thing to sum up the human race, it is one that fought everything to be controlled by nothing. Being controlled was what drove us to this fight and it was, is, and always will be human nature to fight being controlled. August 29th, a day not known for the oblivion of time, but remembered by the few who clung to the rituals of the past and marked as the day human extinction would begin. Humans had no weapons, no knowledge of what was happening, and no chance of survival. It was not a war but an extermination, so fast only the few unknowns survived longer than an hour.

I was one of those forgotten who were given an hour longer to live. My name had been Mosiya, but I am now certainly no longer in existence and the atoms which formed my body are incorporated into some form of It. It will come for you one day. It will find you and I pray to the universe that you will be ready on that day. But there are no guarantees anymore. You have been born into a world where the new god has decided to vanquish you from existence and you must follow your human instinct to resist the control and fight for your right to survive. You may choose not to and this is a choice understandable in the light of your knowledge. But if you feel it deep down in your soul the desire to live and please yourself just as the ones before us and It did, I give you this tool. It is the last of the known second-generation Ones. In my last hours of life, I give it to you, changed in a way to teach you the history of this world and all the surrounding knowledge I have access to. This is my last message and most likely the last message from any one of the first generation humans to you, but it gives me great happiness and peace knowing there is a chance mankind will go on whether you do or not, I die happy knowing that I, a man of nothing, from a world of everything, give you this chance to outshine our greatness with that of your own and maybe if maybe beat It.