It’s going to be a long journey, and when we reach our destination, there’s no telling what we’ll find.

The restraints locked around his ankles.

I’m afraid. We all are.

His wrists.

What kind of a world awaits us on the other side of this long sleep? To some extent, it doesn’t matter. Because the residents of Wayward Pines will face it together. No secrets. No lies. No kings.

The door to his own chamber clanged shut and locked.

We’ve all said our goodbyes. We all know this could be the end, and we’ve made as much peace with that fact as we can.

The pressurized hiss of releasing gas was accompanied by a woman’s voice, computerized and strangely comforting.

She said, “Please begin breathing deeply. Smell the flowers while you can.”

They say time heals all wounds . . . Well, we’ve got plenty of it . . . Enough time for empires to rise and fall. For species to change. For the world to become a kinder place.

The gas smelled like lavender and lilac, and the moment he breathed it in, he felt his consciousness being kicked out from under his feet.

So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what’s around the next bend. And isn’t that, in the end, what drives us?

His eyelids began to lower, and he conjured up the faces of his wife, his son.

We have hope again.

Took Theresa and Ben with him, down into that long, long sleep.

For now, the world belongs to the abbies, but the future . . .

The future could be ours.

EPILOGUE

EPILOGUE

Seventy thousand years later, Ethan Burke’s eyes slammed open.

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