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Chapter 88:The Choices We Must make

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The Choices We Must Make

POV: Aidan

I never imagined that the day humanity discovered alien life would be anything like this.

Sure, there are a million stories—books, movies, songs—all telling tales of first contact. They paint pictures of peaceful meetings, of scientists shaking hands with aliens, or at least of humanity being able to throw a punch when we needed to.

But this?

This wasn’t first contact. This wasn’t a new beginning.

This was the moment when humanity, unprepared and unsus
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