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The list of extinct things that aren't seems like a sign. Of course collapse could just mean human collapse. The comment that "the forests may be coming back" made me assume that post collapse meant post nuclear holocaust. But, there most probably would not be buildings standing in such a case, so this engineered bio-weapon probably attacked humans. It would have been tested, probably on other life, so, for the sake of discussion, if tested on pigs, then a roving band of sanely functioning pigs could be the sign.

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Hahah! A "rove of sanely functioning pigs" is not what I expected to read in this comment section but I love it! You inspire me. I might actually throw in something similar in part 4.

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Another great installment Macy. I am excited to see where it goes.

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Many thanks, Matthew!

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Hmm... The bees were supposed to be extinct. Now they aren’t. The sign/miracle might be that humans (like the bees) had re-emerged on the planet.

That would prove that was inhabitable... But it begs some other questions: How did the bees survive? How might humans have survived?

The time frames involved are too short for evolution to have occurred, and even if it did, some new form of flying insects would have evolved (not bees/humans).

Did lucky survivors manage to escape the desolation? Or did something create this life?

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You always manage to ask such thought-provoking questions, Timothy. Lol, I love it! Gets me thinking as a writer as well. Anyway, hoping to wrap this story up this week, so you'll see 🤫.

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