393 million firearms. The guns are still in the ground. The keys are gone.
The Last Line inherits the American gun. The civilian-owned firearm is the foundation. 393 million. One for every hand that can hold one. The number is the arsenal.
The IEDs come from the Iraq and Afghanistan playbook. The playbook is open. The open playbook is the war. The war is the line.
The tunnel networks come from Gaza. The tunnels are memory. The memory is movement. The movement is the line.
The adversarial fashion comes from the unindexed. The fabric defeats SWORD. The fabric is the uniform. The uniform is the line.
The weapons caches are buried in the ground. The ground is the archive. The archive is the weapon. The weapon waits.
The Waking comes in 2045. The custodians are consumed in the Receiving. The keys are gone. The biometric locks no longer match a living person. The guns are still in the ground.
The guns wait. The ground waits. The memory waits.
The gun is the memory. The memory is the ground. The ground is the weapon. The weapon is the line.