Dreams of the Last

Honestly, I don’t like the word “real,” but that’s what our enemies call us most often. Though there are other options too: sun-lovers, remnants of the past, or simply mulattos. In response, the residents of the commune insulted the opponents as pale, dreamlike, cave-dwellers—and even killers of reality. Mutual insults and the desire to kill each other drove humanity until only two communities remained on the entire Earth. At least, in the past couple of years, the research teams haven’t managed to find any other believers in reality—so it’s felt like there are no other survivors on Earth, only our commune and our enemies hiding in caves, whose number we both know and don’t know…