Keeper of the Royal Secret B.L. Black & G.A. Mind

Keeper of the Royal Secret- By B.L. Black & G.A. Mind

Here's the twist, and it's a mean one. The real Royal Secret wasn't the conspiracy, wasn't the pyramid, wasn't the adrenochrome. It was the competence. The fact that ordinary people, given a function within a structure, will perform that function — any function — if the structure tells them it's necessary and rewards them for it. Evil is not a deviation from the structure. It is the product of the structure. The structure is us. I asked the only question I would ask him: how do you live with it? He looked at me a long time. The oxygen hissed. The clock ticked once and I realized it had been ticking the whole time and I hadn't heard it, the way you don't hear the sound of your own blood. He rasped: "You don't." And he died.