What It All Means (3)

To dream, to hope and to aspire for a better tomorrow. That was really all one could do at a moment, for most of their lives.

"As long as one's alive, there's hope." Lukas murmured. He had heard someone tell that to him when he had been in the pits of absolute misery.

Even in the span of VR technology that sought to replace the world and offered a more vibrant place for oneself, it didn't necessarily completely remove the human element.

Maybe it was easier to trust a human over something artificial? Lukas really didn't think that was the case, but the ones who programmed VR were human either so it all really came down to flipping a coin.

You met good people, you met bad ones.

Well… they were usually more in the middle than anything else, but for now, Lukas struggled and tried to recapture his world and block out the voice of the Unknown.

It had beckoned so many others in his group but Lukas was not going to be one of them.