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10,000 Dawns: Epilogue

3/3/2016

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Written by James Wylder, Art by Annie Zhu
This epilogue is part of the 10,000 Dawns Finale, which you can read all of (and download!) at this link: ​
http://www.jameswylder.com/home/10000-dawns-the-finale

Epilogue

​Alice MacLeod looked at Officer Davis in utter confusion, “What do you mean I'm being released without charges? I beat up three police officers!” She shrugged.
“Its how the system works. Someone paid for your charges to be dropped, so you're free to go.” Alice's jaw dropped, and she almost wanted to punch the kindly officer just to see how far she could push whatever was going on, but decided against it. Fuming, she walked out of the jail, into the noonday sun. She was out just in time to get something other than jail food for lunch, at least. Walking down the sidewalk, she saw a woman on the sidewalk in front of her wearing a black converses, blue pencil skirt, a blue blazer, a white blouse, a black tie, sunglasses, and a hoodie with a weird sun/moon pattern on it on under the blazer, she was quietly scrolling through something on a tablet, so she paid her no mind till she spoke.
“Alice MacLeod?” Instinctively, she put her fists up, but saw the girl had to be only around 17 or 18. She lowered them slowly, and then saw a large cyborg in a trench coat and top hat coming from around the corner. She put her fists back up, and took a step back.
“Whoa there, calm down, don't be afraid, we're here to help!” The girl said cheerily. She lowered her hood, and took off her sunglasses so Alice could see her face.
“...Graelyn Scythes?”
“Sort of! And this is my friend Archimedes.”
“Hi. Good to meet you again, Alice.”
“What?”
“Don't mind that. We work with a group called Dawn, and we'd like to aid your revolution against Centro.” She raised an eyebrow.
“You're a teenage version of Graelyn Scythes. How is that even possible?” She smiled and shrugged.
“I get that a lot from you. But the main point is, we're here to help.”
“You want to help start an anarchist revolution?”
“They're anarchists here? Huh.” Arch mused. Graelyn made a face and shrugged again.
“So why should I trust you?”
“Because you'll have a long, bloody, brutal war ahead of you, and we can save a lot of lives. We're willing to back up our promises with actions.” Alice crossed her arms.
“Okay. So say I believe you. You just want to help us for nothing?”
“That's our job,” she said pointing at a pin on her lapel of a half sun/half moon symbol. “We help people like you rise up. Bring out the best in people.” She held out a hand to Alice, “We help people to never fall again.” 
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THE END

A Note From the Author:

I never dreamed this story would find the readership it has, or bring out the love that's been felt towards its characters. I can't wait to bring the future of the 10,000 Dawns Universe to you soon with 10,000 Dawns Anthology, and let you see what other writers do in this wondrous playground we've set up.

Your support, your unending patience and tolerance for the sometimes awkward realities of trying to craft a story every week (I can't wait to have the time to go back and fix some typos...), and your passion has meant so much to me. I couldn't have asked for nicer readers. Well, I could have, but it would have been weird. You guys are the best.

Thank you. I hope you've enjoyed the ride, but the coaster is still going.
 
Love, 

-James Wylder


3 Comments
Rebecca J
3/25/2016 07:30:49 pm

Kinan was right- Graelyn looks good in the hoodie. :)

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Jeanne R.
5/29/2016 10:26:36 am

Wow. Well, now that I've reached the end of the epilogue, I just want to say this: this is an amazing story, and an amazing universe, and I want to congratulate you on it.
First of all, I love how this story seems to have an overarching theme of standing up and fighting back, and I love that Graelyn and Arch end up doing just that at the end. It's a perfect way to end it for them.
Second of all, I love how everything is on such a massive scale. It just keeps getting bigger and more important as you go on, the stakes keep getting higher - which is, of course, pretty realistic. Like, it starts with an internship application of all things, and ends with people saving multiple universes. It really makes you think about how much impact something can really have.
You have really good things in here about overcoming abuse and dealing with suicidal thoughts, too. Those are great. Really, really great and very essential.
Oh yeah, and of course many congratulations on having nonbinary characters and LGBTQ representation and different races, and so many different kinds of people in this. That's really important too.

I'm looking forward to your anthology!

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James Wylder link
6/24/2016 01:20:46 pm

Thank you so much Jeanne! I've appreciated all of your comments while I've been out and about travelling. I'm so glad you enjoyed the story, and I'll do my best to make the Anthology just as grand ^_^.

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