Chapter 17 – Future
The atmosphere was gloomy.
“Come on, Jerry, help me lift it up and slide it into the hearse,” Matthew said in a broken voice, leaning a hand on one of the young biologist's shoulders. Jerry had bent his knees and was holding Korin's corpse that was lying on the bed.
The encounter had taken place several hours before. Many terrestrial beings had fled into the forest and their tracks had been lost. Only a few of them, that is the ones who had acknowledged their mistakes, undertook to help the Proximians and the group led by Matthew carry the dead bodies. Jerry's eyes were full of tears. He could not say a word. Sobbing in pain, he helped Matthew by grabbing Korin's corpse and leaning it gently on a hearse whose inside was padded with soft grass and little many-colored
