THE ANGELS' COMMENTARY PART 1
It started with just the point of a finger.
The speed at which the candidates raised their own in unison surprised the angels.
"This is not going as we had planned..." an angel lamented.
"The goal was to find the most appropriate candidate, and this begins with them picking out what they suspect is that exact individual and demand that they die. Where did we go wrong?"
Another angel laughed.
"Don't be naive. This is how humans are. They are not interested in the greater good. They aren't
the greater good!"
"Individually no... but collectively they are. What a grave miscalculation. If things proceed along these lines, what kind of human will be our master? Will we be left with the least able?"
"You've got it wrong, this is survival of the fittest. If a candidate cannot lead a mere twelve others, they never had any hope of leading their entire kind."
Just as quickly as the current of bloodlust came, it vanished.. So long as it wasn't themselves, they wager, anyone would serve as an acceptable target. But at last, the accused spoke up, and rose with him a torrent of emotion at the state of their present trajectory.
Miraculously, the candidates had actually began to back down.
"What?" the previously haughty angel gasped.
"I don't understand."
Their expressions had exchanged.
"Looks like you were wrong. Humans are capable of feeling empathy for one another. All of them want to be happy. Their fear of death is shared between each and every one of them. This connection means there is always a path to cooperation!"
"Hmph..." silenced, the angel narrowed its eyes critically at the mortal's interactions.
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Part 2 incoming.