so yall know how the institute burnt down in the 1980s if im not mistaken? so i was listening to mag 60 Observer Effect and (well spoilers) so pretty much the statement giver finds something of her brothers and now cannot shake the feeling of being watched. her brother apparently often came to the institute. she claims to feel especially watched in the archives. the next few years are seemingly not that documented but probably uneventful.
BUT THEN. one day, randomly (?), she finds a delivery truck (who was providing the institute with paper i think at the time), kills the driver and fills the trunk with barrels of oil. EXCUSE ME? why would some normal lady randomly murder someone?
heres the kicker: that statement was given in 1972. THE DATES LINE UP. IT ALL LINES UP. JOHNNY THIS CANNOT BE A COINCIDENCE
thinking of all the undiscovered species that must have ended up swept under the rug because they were discovered on a site intended for development or resource extraction and the discovery of a rare species would have stopped the plans
thinking of all the undiscovered species that exist in unprotected and heavily disturbed places that get overlooked because everyone thinks only "untouched wilderness" has undiscovered species
thinking of all the undiscovered species that don't get studied because if everyone knew that "already destroyed," "no longer wild" places contained priceless biodiversity, developers couldn't destroy them for profit
SPEND WHAT? ETERNITY? YOUR WHOLE LIFE? EVERY SINGLE MOMENT THAT THIS WORLD HAS TO OFFER? WITH THE MAN YOU LOVE MORE THAN ANYTHING? YOUR ANGEL? WHAT IS THAT, CROWLEY?!WHAT?!?!