Chapter I
The End War
The End War lasted eleven months. It took humanity roughly ten thousand years to build civilization — cities, nations, philosophies, plumbing — and less than a year to reduce most of it to irradiated rubble.
The bombs fell. The skies turned grey, then black, then a color no one had a word for because the people who named colors were dead. Whole regions became wastelands. Famine followed fire.
And when the survivors finally crawled out of whatever holes had saved them, they discovered something predictable: They still disagreed about everything.







