Pave the Universe

In it was a very small device and a note.

The note read, "Maybe someday you can save someone too."

The device was familiar; it was an electronic implant, the sort that we use in animals at the Farms to monitor them. It had a series of numbers on it, including a com address, all scratched into the plastic.

I keyed the address into my com but got nothing.

Over the last few cycles, since getting out of the hospital, I have often looked at the holo that Jan gave me. I still am not sure what Yancy had meant by writing ‘Pave The Universe’ on the alcove wall, but I have my suspicions. Yancy was a saver, that is for sure, and the writing could have been rhetorical. Or, it might have been a message meant to save me...if only from myself.

I looked up reports about the tanker crash that caused the cave in. It was believed to be an accident. If Yancy had known that it was going to happen, I doubt that she would have led us down that tunnel on that day.

No, she would not have done that to me. And when she found us trapped, she knew that to save me, she had to use a secret of hers, something that I believe she was saving for another time and purpose.

The news reports of what Yancy had done in the alcove claimed that she used a common explosive charge that she had found in the maintenance cave. I’m not so sure of that.

There are people who are willing to die for a cause. Yancy was one of them. I never thought I could be like that. But I am thinking of going down to The Asylum soon to find Jan. I want to ask her a few questions. And if I hear the answers that I think I will hear, then I’m going to ask her what I have to do to get that implant put into my chest…close to my heart.