Not only the Sectors Guardians had failed, for now they had occupied a desert plateau, an abandoned house with an underground passage, and a useless, deactivated machine hidden somewhere in the depths of the earth. Not only they had lost the evolutionary key, although without knowing it, the only way to reach The Dome and the Professor into the Intradimensional. But they had lost perhaps the last chance to listen to what the people living in the wasteland had to say. By slaying Malik and his rebels, they had cut off the ties with humanity. Wars were fought at a distance, using technology and cybernetic beings. Dialogue had been thwarted and muffled under the sound of incessant bombing, radioactive storms, and the silence of The Council, which operated undisturbed and unseen from its hidden
