“So you’re telling me that Bellum Aeterna never had this Godeater thing?” asked Eva.
Both Eva and Miko were on a video call with Jackson Stone, and had more than a few questions for him since they last spoke. Because he didn’t mention either Drogar or Godeater at that time, they assumed that they weren’t part of the game’s design. Maybe he could have forgotten. Or maybe he hid them on purpose.
So they asked him to confirm. Jackson shook his head in response.
He looked more haggard than the last time they saw him. More sober, too. But not by much. Well, he was getting up in years. Eva reasoned that time was just starting to bear down on him.
“No,” Jackson replied. “Nothing like what you described at all. Not even in concept, honestly. We were always aiming for hard science fiction with
