“We need someone with experience, with some maturity,” I said.
“I was going to call my parents.”
“Your father is a career military man. I don’t know if he'd be able to handle what we've learnt.”
“Are you trying to say we couldn’t trust my father?”
“If you didn’t live with the experiences you had lived through recently. Could I trust you with this information? Or would you turn me in as a subversive, a nut?”
Martina exhaled loudly and crossed her arms.
She was about to answer me, but stopped herself. Meanwhile, Samuel walked throughout the maze of cylinders containing developing humans. I warned him, tried to describe what he'd see; but it was beyond words. With all his maturity and wisdom, there was nothing in his life experiences that could help him deal with what he was being shown.
His face was fixed in stone as he ambled through the main laboratory at the Earth base. The two of us arguing were of little consequence compared to the grave reality he was trying to absorb. History was his passion, his purpose in life; but none of what he knew would have conjured up such a nightmare. Martina and I grew quiet as he came beside us at the control panel. We both looked at him, waiting for some sort of input. He walked by us, sitting down at the control panel.
“You've a great deal of important information here. You did a good thing to contact me Tyler.”
He sat down and started trying to filter through the informational database.
“How do we know we can trust you?” Martina said.
Samuel turned and looked at her.
“I guess you don’t really know. It’s too late to worry about that now. Tyler took a chance, followed his instincts. Maybe it was a little reckless, but you'll learn soon enough that he made a good decision.”
“I hope so,” Martina said.
“Listen young lady, try to understand something important. You've a great deal of information here, but no matter how important, it's not the complete puzzle. You've discovered valuable information about the present and how the people of the space station, your society, have been deceived by its rulers. Yet, you've received virtually no truthful information about your past or where you came from. You're struggling to comprehend too much information without any history behind it—that is where I can help. Together, we have a more complete picture of what it is we’re dealing with.”