The older man turned to look at the thin spire of ice, jutting out

>from above the white cloud that seemed impossibly far away. It stood as

a memorial to the fallen youths. "I don't know. Who can say what the
future holds."

holds?

  Not a question. He's just noting that they can't know.

I think he meant to use a question mark to make it a rhetorical question. I'd 
agree with him, actually--it just looks better that way to me.

-Alyssa

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