Immortals, probably. Creatures that feed off human energy and fear – both chronic and acute.
“There are an astronomically large number of planets that are inhabited…”
“Gasp.”
“Oh, don’t gasp yet. That’s not even the interesting part yet. You should have already assumed THAT much to be true. But what is more interesting is that their politics are disturbingly similar, parallel to those on Earth. As above, so below, it seems. I should say, rather, those below reflect those above.”
Maybe there is no point, and maybe that is the point: Life is to be lived, not thought too much about.
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