Bleak Midwinter

"Day 7/40" of daily uploads.



Torn between where to direct his life.



-------"Assume nothing. Not assuming anything clears your eyes. The eyes of your mind. Understand that there is no conditioning that can prepare you for having coals branded into your eyes, being burnt to death, being raped, drowned, suffocated… repeatedly and endlessly."



Arthur Olvasen has to decide on a side.



-------"Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women."



And he has to do so as quickly as possible, as the merger and the potential interracial war between Earth and Eden creeps eerily close



-------"Human life—no living, breathing life holds any inherent value. Have you not realised this, Michael?! Despite all you have witnessed? It possesses no intrinsic worth!"



He has to decide now——The Bad or The Worse.



-------"Because chaos is more organised than order itself. Exactly as you taught me."