It was comfortable. It had, in fact, known humans since its construction. But it knew change was coming. It knew, but it was not permitted to show it’s bearer the future. To the eye it was a simple round crystal, barely four centimeters across, with thousands of facets on it’s surface cut by means unknown to men, by means not shared by its creator. It was a simple device, used only to focus thoughts, to be able to give certain thoughts physical impact. It did not care to the intent of those thoughts, and in fact was completely impartial, refusing to take sides in the battle between creation and entropy. It would not, of its own accord, affect change. It knew about the coming bombardment from space, but was simply not permitted to warn it's bearer. It also knew that the bearer should have been able to detect it, but due to those vagaries of human behaviour it found confusing, he did not. When the comet storm arrived, it was thrust up and out of the atmosphere in the same widespread devastation that nearly eliminated mankind.
