Explosions could be heard from above as you came to. You could feel the cuffs holding you to the bed frame behind you, and an unmistakable sense of loss in the pit of your chest.

Joseph stood a little away from you, an almost caring. But also triumphant look on his face.

“You know what this means? It means the politicians have been silenced. It means the corporations have been erased. It means that the world has been cleansed by God’s righteous fire… But most of all… it means I was right.”