Entanglement by Penney R.S

Author:Penney, R.S.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Creativia
Published: 2016-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

Mist split apart to reveal a small river where black waters babbled as they carried twigs downstream. On either bank, moss grew in the shade of tall oak trees that reached across the waters, straining for each other.

Anna stood by the water's edge in a pair of beige pants and a dark blue t-shirt with a silver diamond on the chest. Her hair was perfectly styled with thin strands framing her face, the rest tied back in a stubby ponytail.

She closed her eyes, breathing deeply to calm herself. “Thanks for taking me back here,” she said with a nod. “I don't think I've seen this little stream in what…eleven years? Or was it twelve?”

“Thirteen actually.”

Seth stood on the small path that led back to the residential neighbourhood, dressed in a pair of black pants and a green tunic and carrying his perfect wooden bow over his shoulder. He had a handsome, boyish face with copper skin and a touch of dark stubble on the jawline, his black hair combed back.

Just like the character that she had envisioned when reading Enala Seral's delightful children's novels all those years ago. Seth the Scout. Her Nassai had emulated the form of his namesake perfectly.

Seth grimaced, bowing his head to her. “I could sense that you wanted to talk,” he said, marching down the path to stand at her side. “Your confrontation with Slade has left you feeling off-balance.”

Anna turned her face up to the sky, the light breeze brushing thin strands of hair off her cheeks. “Off-balance doesn't begin to cover it,” she said, eyebrows rising. “I need to know if I made the right choice.”

“You did.”

“Can you be sure?”

He stood by the river's edge with his arms crossed, transfixed by the sight of the babbling waters. “I would not have bonded you if you were the kind of woman who felt comfortable sacrificing lives.”

Well, that was a start, she supposed. And once upon a time, she would have agreed with that sentiment wholeheartedly, but Jena's words had left her shaken. Twice in one day, she had been forced to decide whether total strangers would live or die. She was still reeling from her decision to abandon those men and women on Ganymede – enemy or not, a life was a life – and then Slade had thrown her into a deeper conflict.

She could have pulled the trigger; she could have stopped him right then and there, but deep down, she knew that no force in this universe would have compelled her to go through with it. It was almost a law of physics: energy could not be created or destroyed, matter could not accelerate to the speed of light, and Anna Lenai could not bring herself to pull that trigger.

It was the cognitive dissonance that gnawed at her mind. She would leave men and women to suffocate, but she would not kill one single individual? Well, no…that wasn't entirely accurate. Killing Slade would have meant putting everyone else on the station in danger.

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