Aenea smiled but her eyes still glistened. “Humans have been waiting for Jesus and Yahweh and E. T. to save… — Dan Simmons
Aenea smiled but her eyes still glistened. “Humans have been waiting for Jesus and Yahweh and E. T. to save their asses since before they covered those asses with bearskins and came out of the cave,” she said. “They’ll have to keep waiting. This is our business...our fight...and we have to take care of it ourselves.”
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