David works at his computer with single-minded focus trying to design gridwork patterns that will recreate the energy of the Singer and Rose crystals. Each time he puts together a grid, he receives a computer message instead, each one more cryptic than the previous one:
“There will be no star wars in the next millennium. No one will have to fight to touch the stars or claim them as their own”… “There is no ultimate truth, for the Universe is constantly revealing itself and all its mysteries, which are infinite and unknowable.”
But one elaborate grid pattern evokes a message that is chillingly akin to what Ishtar once told him:
“Humanity should always be greater than technology.”
At this, the hard drive crashes and the monitor goes dark.
David wonders if the problem is evidence of the
