10 | video | Sir, I think you'd better take my hand / and pray we'll make this one out alive.

[the_vishual]

[ The video clicks on and there's Chase--smiling, if gently. She looks like nothing at all has happened to her, asides from maybe going on a pleasant stroll through the oxygen gardens. ]

Those that have come out of the fog, congratulations. I trust you're all back safe, if emotionally harmed. Please seek assistance from the designated persons aboard this ship if this is your case.

Furthermore--be it the mist or rust, please be aware that it's the least of our problems. The endgame, as it were, is still to try to figure out why we're here. God may have willed it, but there's always need for a further explanation. Please keep this in mind while investigating the ship, if you so wish to do so.

And, lastly, if anyone has some chalk, I'd like it. [ A beat. ] I want to learn how to play hopscotch.

Comments

[the_vishual]

Why would you? God can't control the poor decisions you make. He can test you, yes, but free-will means if you're dooming yourself to fail, you will.

[signatures]

So all terrible things happen because God wants to test everyone?

He sounds like an insecure sort of guy.

[the_vishual]

Not at all. Things worked differently on Heaven's Fence, of course--but God is curious. That's why he gave Man free will.

[signatures]

So he wants to observe the many ways mankind messes itself?