Chapter 79: Traitor
It wasn't working. Lizzie had tried for two solid months to convince someone - anyone - that they should consider a peace with Paragon. But no one wanted to listen. They just wanted blood.
On the one hand, Lizzie understood - the Engineers had made some choices that were… questionable, to say the least. Secrecy, lies, mind control through the stitching and the drugs, mass murder…
But that was also reductive. The Engineers had done some terrible things, yes - but had they really had a choice? Lizzie didn't want to hear it at first, either, but the more she thought about it, the more it seemed that the Engineers just did what needed to be done. Everyone was going to die anyway. Instead, the Engineers had saved the entire human species from itself, had given humanity a place where they could live comfortably, securely, and in harmony with the world around them for a long and prosperous future.