The End of the Beginning

“She has the drive!”

“What? How is that possible? She went to Nome?”

“It appears so… Upon her arrival find it, if it’s the last thing you do. Without it, we cannot pursue the scope of change we desire. We cannot function in the open.”

“I will find it, Patrem. I swear it. I will initiate the drive's contents here at Base Tranquility at the precise time originally intended, fifteen hundred hours Alaskan standard time, nineteen hundred hours eastern.”

“Yes, you will. The land we desire is just over the seas, ready to be taken in hand, ready to be taken from a world that bleeds. You will…”