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I frowned "You’re trying to avoid telling o away and find juice"

"Untrue: I gave you juice the very first time you came here," Dr Cale replied "And it’s not like you’ve spent that much time with me Maybe all of my personal relationships are heavily dependent on juice consuave me juice that was in the rooe in the corner over there, so if you were that dependent on juice for noret o find Ada, but I’ on? Why do you wanthis words at Dr Cale He was sh the expression died quickly, replaced by soleain by just how much he resembled hisover the data that you were able to recover fro that I didn’t want you to, but I’ to understand just how necessary it was"

I worried , "How bad?"

"I don’t know We’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s there--it’s only been a few hours" He shrugged, his ared to a doll and not to a man "How does the end of the human race sound to you?"

"Oh," I said, and looked to Dr Cale She nodded That was all it took: one little nod to confirm the end of humanity "That’s bad," I said

Oh my God, Steven I always knew that you were a proud man--that your hubris was, in its way, even worse thanin the pursuit of godhood--but I never thought that you would actually go this far Or was it you at all? Did you get so caught up in the ot to be the man? Was Sherman able to do this all under your nose?

It doesn’t really matter now What’s done is done

May God have mercy on us all

–FROM THE JOURNAL OF DR SHANTI CALE, SEPTEMBER 21, 2027

Silent house and silent hall,

Roo underneath the stair

I know just what you hope to find,

But this is all I left behind: