"You're a little worried, but things turn out okay. You wake up and barely anything is different. Then autocooks start to get better. And so do cars. And so do coms. Miracles start to occur every day. It seems good, but there's no control. You can't stop it. You can't do anything. There's no center... no heart. The parts move on their own. And then... one morning you wake up and find that the world no longer needs you, nor anyone else. The machines are everywhere you look... And they squeeze. They squeeze tighter and tighter, increasing in speed with each moment. They leave no room for you or me or any other human. Their merciless violence cuts through everything and everyone until a screaming cacophony of metal forces the blood of every last man, woman, and child into a fountain of death that consumes the whole—"
Crystal Eternity chapter 6
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