I started writing this story at 3 AM, much like Jayson. Not standing in a kitchen, but staring at a blank screen, wondering how we might navigate the divides already emerging in our world—between those who can afford tomorrow's advantages and those who can't, between enhancement and tradition, between becoming more and remaining ourselves.
The enhancement divide in these pages isn't prophecy. It's possibility. One version of how we might face the choice between transcending human limits and honoring what makes us human. I don't know if we'll have servo-assisted legs or neural crowns. But I believe we'll face Jayson's question: When given the chance to become more than human, can we do it without becoming less?
What haunts me—what drove every word—is the fear that in rushing toward tomorrow, we might abandon everyone who runs at human pace. That progress might mean leaving behind those who choose, or can't afford, to remain unmodified. That enhancement might become requirement, not option.
But I also believe in stubborn hope. In people like Jayson who stop to help even when it costs them everything. In communities like Sector 12 that build bridges from whatever materials they have. In the possibility that different paths forward can exist without one erasing the other.
This isn't about rejecting enhancement—Wei's journey shows that technology itself isn't evil. It's about insisting that human is already enough, even as we explore what else human might become. It's about crossing finish lines together, whatever we're running with. It's about remembering that the most profound enhancement might be the choice to remain connected.
To everyone who worries about being left behind by tomorrow's changes—this story is my small act of faith. Not that the future will be easy or fair, but that we can choose to build it together. That we can enhance without abandoning. That we can evolve while honoring where we came from.
The race isn't between natural and enhanced. It's between fear and hope, between division and connection, between a future that includes everyone and one that doesn't.
I believe we can choose connection. Choose to help whoever falls, however they're built. Choose to see enhancement as expansion, not replacement. Choose to run toward tomorrow without leaving today's humans behind.
Keep running. Keep choosing. Keep believing that human—in all its current and future forms—is enough.
—Galaxy