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And for that to even happen, they needed to consider if the truth was even possible. To them it was grossly inconceivable; which was nice, because it meant Jonathan and Gabe weren’t dead yet.
    Stopping dead in their tracks, both turned. Time for a DTR. This would be it, the moment where May and Dane decided to kill them or not.
    May again asked for clarity on the situation. She had done so four or five times already.
    “Okay, so you’re from the past, but it was highly advanced, so you know a lot about everything, and you buried yourselves in a cave because you want to help us…?”
    When she said it that way it really did come across as stupid. Gabe was tired of explaining, and sighed, “Um… sure…”
    “And you’re gunna help us with… politics? Agriculture? Architecture?” Dane asked.
    “Well, not exactly… we don’t know much about those things.”
    “So what then? Just tell us straight up, we are intelligent enough to understand.” Dane’s voice was more abrupt than was comfortable .
    Gabe was shockingly feeling nervous now… “It is a little abstract, but it’s more of your thoughts relating to those things… and your attitudes in context of it all… if you are… tolerant.” He wasn’t sure if they would understand the connotation of the last term.
    Dane became now visibly skeptical. Perhaps it was irrational, but Gabe couldn’t help but think of the worse possible scenario.
    Gabe thought about all their deaths until now. Seemed like the deaths got worse and worse each time, which made this next one most certainly a frightful and agonizing one. Maybe that was superstitious, which was such a calamitous and disagreeable human condition, still, there’s something to be said about patterns.
    Thinking of calamitous and disagreeabl e, Gabe always felt this weather fit in that description. They hadn’t even realized they were sweating until something tickled as a drop ran down their face. It wasn’t the Gulf of Mexico, either, that’s for sure. And why was it dying?
    Dane interrupted his thought s, “Explain, please.”
    Gabe sighed, but he was expecting this and thought the weather could distract him with a little peace before the blow came.
    “ I mentioned in the cave about the purpose of life being finding freedom; more specifically to use that freedom to find happiness. Our goal is to help society find happiness. That’s a hard thing you’ll find out soon… or perhaps you already… know?” Gabe hesitated while making the decision to turn his sentence into a question instead.
    Neither acknowledged the question . Then Dane, perhaps deciding he’d been too hard on them with lack of information said,
    “ But that’s with the same frustrating idea that sociality and economics have something to do with happiness or success, or uniform obedience, or whatever people want. Here’s the idea we’ve already concluded. You can’t control the masses, there’s no formula. And, while offense may be avoidable, it is intended when I say that that is your obvious failure and it seems like it is in your mind to pursue the same course again. So why don’t you finish explaining what you’ve done already and tell us your intentions.”
    Maybe he wasn’t irreconcilably silly, then , Gabe realized with distaste. Then Gabe said,
    “Do you remember how I was talking about the inequality that created the rules people tried to live by? Once things began to change and those rules were questioned, people weren’t willing to change their opinions. They thought certain things were always right. It caused so many issues and weakened our nation particularly with disunity, so when war came, we were unprepared for it and it broke us easily. We want to avoid that. We are going to examine your society and discover what you have determined is important; if you’ve created expectations and how people respond to those personally and as a community; if they’re healthy. If you are peaceful and there is nothing