The aftermath of victory was more complex than the victory itself.
Across both continents, millions of people were waking up from collective consciousness to find a world that had changed in their absence. Some embraced their restored individuality with joy, others struggled with the transition, and still others chose to remain in small collective groups not forced unity, but chosen community.
"Status report," I asked Marcus as we surveyed the controlled chaos of our command center, now serving as a coordination hub for the largest rehabilitation effort in human history.
"Approximately sixty-seven percent of converted individuals have chosen full restoration to individual consciousness," he reported. "Twenty-eight percent are requesting partial collective living small communities where
