The Fallacy
The dimming mist of the mountain (a precursor to a steam vented magma crack?) rises with the sun. This, now, is the place a volcanic explosion could occur today, sheer stubbornness of cliffs keeping the mountains on due course, bringing them higher and higher. Without fanfare, any desire to turn back is futile; time,in all its complexities, simply moves forward; even the pull of nature fails to circumvent sheer elimination of the human race.
Hours pass. Finally, Cooper and Carter arrive back at the lab station.
"Carter, you will never understand Suzie until you stand beside her," Cooper says, taking the last few steps, raising more sweat. "Working with her is like being on the edge of a deep gorge."
"And what do you find in this deep gorge?"
"Well, anything can come up-- you can't find something if you don't look." Cooper's mind disappears into a foggy mist for a moment.
Carter's eyes widened as if expanding the target for an expected presumptive strike.
Suzi is built on logical structure. She hopes for nothing. Cooper likes her hunches, but he is a scientist and knows the fallacy of self-imposed gene expression, but still, he hopes this time it gives him overpowering feelings. maybe a haunting, a familiarity to nothing; soon his conscious mind will remember.
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