Prompt Word: Auto
She sighed, “The whole planet is scheduled to be mined for resources, and to be honest, it’s our own fault.
“Collectively, we’ve let it go. Not all of us, but enough of us. You’d think the worst thing polling results regularly do is get the predicted losers to stay home, but the actual worst is that it gets the predicted winner side to get complacent, thinking they don’t need to show up. After-all, the losers are so far behind.”
“‘Our guy has it in the bag,’ they think, ‘just leave the world on auto, and it’ll be fine.’
“Well, if that isn’t collectively letting it go, I don’t know what else is. Congratulations, I guess. Now a literal lizard overlord runs this quadrant of the galaxy, and those safety systems we thought were baked in were never made for a scenario where the lizard has already put his fellow lizards in the places where those safeties are supposed to go.”
“Shut up Kass, I’m tired of the ‘I told you so’ speech. Come and help me load our pod,” he grumbled.
“Agem, my pod is already loaded, I’m not coming with you.”
“What why!?” the president complained.
“Because your wife would literally kill me, Agem, we’ve been over this.”
“She would never, I forbid it!” he roared.
“Just because you won’t believe me, AGAIN, doesn’t make it any less true.” At that, Kassandra turned on her heel and walked away.
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