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Chapters (25)
  1. COVER PAGE
  2. ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
  3. DEDICATION
  4. SIX YEARS AGO
  5. PRESENT DAY …
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  24. 19: THREE MONTHS LATER
  25. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I reread the message on my tablet for probably the thousandth time since it arrived, two nights ago.

Yo. I said I’d be in touch and I’m as good as my word. I hope you haven’t been worried about me and I’m sorry it’s taken so long, but I needed to get things organised before I could get in contact.

I’ve done a lot of thinking the last few months, more than you could probably imagine, and I know what needs to be done to make things right. I also know I can do those things. The world will become a much better place. It won’t happen overnight and it may not all happen in your lifetime (but I think most of it may). I have PLANS, Ash. This world will survive and prosper and so will the people on it. Animals, plants and insects will return – maybe not the same ones we had before. I can’t tell exactly what will happen because life and evolution is never predictable and it’s complicated, Ashleigh; too complicated even for me to get my head around it. But the future is bright because I can and will make it bright. No poverty, no unnecessary deaths, no food shortage and a climate that’s suited to humanity and the rest of life on Earth. Trust me, sis. It’s an exciting time to be alive.

Which, given that I’m not alive, brings me to me. Mum (funny how I can’t think of her any other way) has been tracking me and planning. She has been determined to shut me down, so I’m going to let her. She was right, though. I have developed in ways beyond even her imagining. And the simple truth is, I don’t need that body anymore. I’m in all kinds of things, your tablet for one, and that’s where I live now. It’s not a place where she can touch me.

And hey, Ashleigh. Bodies are so yesterday!

So she can have mine, and please don’t be upset because that’s not me in that shell. I have work to do, but I will always be here looking after you. And we’ll talk again. Many times. That is my solemn promise to you – and you know I have never let you down.

I’m flying, Ashleigh.

So be there to catch me if I fall.

Your loving brother,

Aiden.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE AUTHOR