Chapter 61I blinked my eyes, and the hilltop was gone. Suddenly, I was back in the white light, floating in circles like a leaf on the surface of a pond.
The voice of Atlantis boomed around and within me. That was how it started between us. You remember now, don't you?
I did. I remembered it clearly, as if I had never forgotten it. I knew in my heart and soul it had been authentic. It had happened to me.
But knowing it and accepting it were two different things. Some of it, I still couldn't believe. Still didn't want to believe.
"I would never condemn humankind." That was the part that got me. Laurel had clued me in on the world-made-flesh part, that I was the Earth in human form...but the part about wanting to kill off humanity was another story.
Yet you did, said Atlantis.
