Path book 1 Igor

"All right, Igor! What makes you think you're going to die? Why such terrible thoughts?"

"I'm scared, Azi! Very, very scary!" The most terrible war in the history of the galaxy is inevitably coming upon us! It will be so monstrous that we cannot even imagine it! And anything can happen, the galaxy is a dangerous place...."

"But maybe we should tell the adults?"

"And what are we going to tell them, Asi? That I have nightmares in which an unknown race of machines destroys all sentients in the galaxy?! They didn't believe the scientists! Did you see? Scientists! They were booed and ridiculed. And they'll just roll me into a madhouse and feed me pills like a madman."

"And the parents?"

"And what about the parents? I don't want to pin this on them — let them live in happy ignorance. Can you just imagine what it's like to know that your children are doomed to fight an enemy that is almost impossible to defeat? To a war in which they will most likely all die?!"

"Will I be able to carry it around?"

"I'm sorry, but I just can't carry this alone anymore! And you're the only one I can tell this to! You'll believe me and you'll never tell anyone what you've learned. You, the one who loves and trusts me! He trusts you even more than everyone else! And he loves you more than anyone else, too...."

"But... how can I help you?"

"I don't know... but in some of my dreams I see you-you're next to me, out there in the burning galaxy. In the midst of pain and death, in the realm of despair... I see you next to me! My older friend, my Asi..."