I worked on the Winter Anthology story today and got quite a bit done.

I think the two boys are going to die.

I don't want them to die, but the way the story is going it seems inevitable that they'll die.

I just haven't quite figure out how to go about setting it up because if they die both of them have to die at the same time. You know, that together in death thingy. It's such a cliche, but what to do otherwise.

Orignally, I planned on them being taken away to a paradise of sorts, but that's making their captors into something they might not be.

So, if they don't go to paradise, what do I do with them?

Where they're going they can't get out of unless someone pulls off some miracle.

And, it's not some place where they can continue living because resources are being expended for their existence, resources that could be better used elsewhere.

But, what to do with them?

I'm thinking they can become B'na. It takes awhile, but the initial injection basically obliterates the mind; or, at a minimum it dissolves free will. The B'na can think. They have personalities. They, themselves, remember being like humans, but what about real humans. Will the boy's personalities remain as they go through the processes to become immortal?

Or, maybe, one of the boys will do something with his technical skills.

Or, maybe, they'll simply be sold into slavery and taken to a labor colony on another planet.

I'm not so certain this story is going to have a happy ending. So far, it certainly hasn't been a happy story.

Very dark and gloomy.

Oh, well, I'm tired and hopefully I'll have a load going south to California.