truly achieved, what he and Krysty had set out to do. They had broken from the
bonds that were at the heart of the Deathlands, they had entered the forbidden
places, deep into the Darks, and they had found… something, something other than
their dreary experience in the Deathlands, something that by its very newness
spelled hope for a different life, a different future.
That was what they had always yearned for, quested for, put their lives on the
line for. Now Ryan and his woman and J.B. and their warrior allies and the
strange character called Doc were free at last of the deadening reality of the
Deathlands, free to live anew even if the new life was hazardous and unknown.
Through love and through death they had come this far, and they had seen so
much, and now they would conquer—
And the darkness fell once more over them all.
Epilogue
RYAN opened his eye.