Foreword

This story is the sequel to From Here to Hereafter, and so won't make much sense without it. Here to Hereafter can be reached via the "view my complete profile" link to the right.

When we last left Darrus, the Fury Karobim had been destroyed, levelling nearly a square mile of the massive city of New Liberty. Darrus, 18 Guardian Devils, a Nightmare named Szziszzigji, and countless humans were all known to be within the blast radius.

Across town, the prophet Ross Gibson, the Fury's initial target, had been saved by Darrus. He repayed the debt by saving Darrus' son Lucian from a chot raid that claimed the lives of Lucian's best friends, Jacob Radford and George Banks. Lucian, up to then a loyal citizen of Lawrence Rehnquist's New World Order, found himself with a sprained ankle, riding in a car driven by a man who claimed to know his father--dead for twenty years--but not much older than himself, talking of starting a full-blown insurgency. Lucian didn't commit to the cause, but did not dismiss it, either.

Now the world reels in response to the percieved attack on New Liberty; it is not a good time to be an Insurgent.