I Want You to Live, Torsty

Grandfather didn't understand, but maybe it was unfair to expect him to. Unlike torsty, he hadn't grown up with mam coming home and talking about her job at the long reflection committee. Over and over she had explained what a time this was in human history. Exestential threats, pandemics, bio terror, rogue aeyes had been overcome. It was time to look toward the deep future and decide humanity's destiny. Torsy had loved it, and had devoured everything the committee published that mam let him read. He even started contributing ideas to the committee's open simulations that mapped out possible futures millions of years ahead. If you extended your life by