“Did you hear the news?” their mother asked.
“About the alliance?”
“Yes. It’s worse than it looks. Relations have broken down. And when things break in silence, they rarely mend again.”
“Does that mean war?” Alex asked quietly.
Their father remained silent for a moment.
“Not yet. But it’s the beginning. When people stop working together, everything falls apart.”
“And will it reach here?”
“The world is small. Smaller than you think. What begins far away arrives exactly when there’s nothing left to stop.”
Silence settled over the room.
“Why are you looking like that?” Harvey asked.
“Because I know I won’t be able to protect everything. And the people with nothing will fall first.”
“It sounds like a nightmare.”
“No,” his father replied quietly.
“It’s reality arriving slowly.”
Nobody smiled.
A few hours later, the sirens began.
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