Cosega Sphere (The Cosega Sequence Book 4) (30 page)

The Conversation

“I have a dream for the future,” Booker began. “It’s a place where we live together, not as members of different races, religions, or even nations, but as citizens of Earth, as creators of reality, an incredibly beautiful, harmonious, and dynamic reality.”

“I’ve seen that place in the future of which you speak,” Savina said. “But I’ve also seen the nightmare from which you run. Where will we wind up? It’s a simple choice, or really many simple choices that we each make every day, with all of our decisions. Do we go toward the nightmare, or the dream?”

“In some ways, they’re the same,” Gale added. “The seeds of the dream have always been contained within the soul, and the nightmare has long been carried in the personality, the part of us that feels fear. So we experience both. There is no way to avoid it, but which one becomes real is something we can control.”

“Because when we learn where we came from, we will discover where we’re going,” Rip suggested. “And we now know that in the stars, there is the limitless possibility for everything.”

Rip, Gale, Savina, and the six scientists took the information given to them by Crying Man and used the two Spheres to adjust the current world. Early experiments with “tweaks” to the past using time-shifts were promising. They managed to keep a glimmer of the Cosegans’ world alive, but Crying Man came less and less as he dealt with the growing crisis facing his people due to mistakes in our present time.

Booker, utilizing Cosegan technology and his private army, along with occasional help from DIRT, managed to keep the NSA, CIA, and other agencies away long enough that the Spheres could be used to work on the immediate urgent threats.

Rip and Savina made the report to Booker. 

“We have at least temporarily averted the Death Divinations,” Rip said.

“Climate destabilization, World War III, and most importantly, the horrific plague no longer shows in future forecasts,” Savina added.

However, the Aylantik Foundation continued. The elite, steered by greed and fear, grew in power. Their Phoenix Initiative, although buried for now, still hung as a constant threat. The Foundation had the power to change the future at any time, and they would eventually use it.

“The future is a fragile place,” Booker said.

But each moment of “time” that the Sphere team and Inner Movement bought meant they were a moment closer to when the Imazes would return to help one last time.

END OF BOOK FOUR

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Most of us have had years when everything changed; I’ve been fortunate enough to have had many of those years. I’m grateful for this interesting and ever-changing life, but this year has been different, beyond all the others. This year time stopped . . . and began again.

The Cosega Sequence was originally only supposed to be three books, but so many of you, a shocking number actually, contacted me asking for more. The requests flattered and ultimately challenged me. I could not refuse, so I deviated from my normal writing schedule, putting a planned series of political thrillers on hold. It was exciting to delve back into the Cosega world; I hope you find the same magic.

Once I made the decision to publish Sphere, I expected it to be ready in April. However, as I mentioned, this year has been unlike any other, and time is a funny thing. In either case, you are reading this now due to the help of some wonderful people. Roanne Legg, who reads first and toughest, and this year did it while doing
everything
else. Barbara Blair, who always tries not to be too easy on me, but usually is anyway. Bonnie Brown Koeln, my last reader who always leaves my work even clearer. And finally to Teakki, who patiently waited to find out more about not only Rip and Gale, but rather Frank, Joe, and Chet, until I finished writing each day.