Project Destiny by Justin Sloan

Author:Justin Sloan [Sloan, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elder Tree Press
Published: 2018-02-19T22:00:00+00:00

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Alice: The Dome

Clear of the Titanian hideout and well around the station so as to avoid suspicion, Alice hopped onto one of the space station’s travel pods. These were floating, magnetized connected ovals that made the rounds, dropping people off at their jobs or taking them home. They had ones for the miners and others for the groups that went to places like the West Ward. She was riding in the latter at the moment. It carried its passengers past the vast windows that showed views of space, and they were lucky enough to be in a rotation that showed Earth, at the moment.

Alice always loved seeing Earth from up here. Sure, the way the clouds formed along it made it interesting, in that it was never quite the same sight, but for her it was a symbol of who she had once been. A goal, in a sense. If, somehow, Marick was still alive, she’d find a way to take him back with her.

Her eyes lingered on the planet a moment longer before the pod began its descent past several levels of the station, passing the markets and bazaars, a group of children waving playfully.

Families came up here, a fact that had stung even more when Alice had arrived. She couldn’t stomach the idea that her family had been ripped apart, singled out, perhaps. Not that they’d even had kids, yet.

She waved back, and saw a small girl beside her waving too, a girl who a moment ago had been hidden behind her dad’s long, wool coat.

The girl glanced over at Alice’s fake uniform, smiled, and then hid back behind the coat again.

“Reporting in?” her dad asked.

“What’s that?” Alice glanced around, then realized he was talking to her.

“I mean, are you one of the new recruits, or old hat?” he said. “Rumor is, more on the way, but I…?”

“Oh, sorry, no. I came with the last batch. Getting some well-earned rest and relaxation, you know?”

“Do I ever. Mining supervisor. But I get to stay on station, most of the time.” He patted his daughter’s head and smiled at her, then back to Alice. “Space Station Horus is a dream come true.”

“It certainly is,” Alice replied, not adding the part that entered her mind about it being a nightmare for some.

The pod reached her stop and she hopped off, smiling as the girl gave her a timid wave. Another reminder that Alice wasn’t here to take down the whole space station. She wasn’t about hurting innocents, or even the soldiers, when given a chance.

Just bringing justice to New Origins and anyone in the system who had corrupted the dream that could have been.

“I’m approaching now,” she whispered, watching the crowds of people along the densely populated fake street that led up to the dome from the West Ward. The street was a hodgepodge of lookalikes from Earth, with bits of it that resembled the main intersection of Shibuya, in Tokyo, Japan, and others that reminded her of streets in New York, right down to the large billboard set up to look like Times Square had in the old days.

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