Change

Dakshana paused. “What sort of proposition?”

“Do you know how long this world has existed?”

“No.” She’d honestly never thought about it.

“Do you know how long it will continue to exist even after everyone you know has returned to mother earth?”

She hadn’t thought of that either.

“I don’t know, but I know this - in my time I have seen ten nations rise and fall, tribes and chiefs and petty warlords, and it has all been in vain. What if people like us, people who see time for what it is - what if we work together to change it?”