Note: This is a multi-part series. Click here for the previous chapter: https://steemit.com/scifi/@occamsblock/agos-data-fragments-part-1a
He was blanketed by darkness unseen. A wrongness one could only sense, and once identified changed forever. Friends didn't understand. Family didn't understand. Most just wanted to move on... so they ridiculed him.
Predictably, not all did. And it broke them as a people. But he guessed that was how desolations worked. Prison would bring out the wretch again, if he let it.
The word would remain.
Coming soon: Part III: To wake a sleeping giant