"If I had told you that this would have happened within a few days, would you have believed me?" He said, indicating the devastation that surrounded them.
"No, I don't think so," she admitted, observing the cars abandoned along the road and the bodies lying on the ground here and there through a wall of dark rain, the carcass of a plane crashed nearby was still smoking.
"But if I had done so and you had believed me, then you would have started destroying each other, each attempting to gain salvation at the expense of the others, and nothing would be left on Earth in a matter of days. Instead, in this way we have at least the hope that someone, somewhere, will survive," he explained to her with all the simplicity he was capable of, and his reply suddenly shut off Margareth's hot spirits.
