Star Force: Origin Series Box Set (13-16) by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2016-01-18T05:00:00+00:00

“I thought we were supposed to be running?” one of the girls asked the boy to her left as the entire orisect stood at attention in 5 rows of 20 waiting for their handlers to give them instructions.

“Me too,” the boy answered.

“I’m glad we’re not,” another one said. “I’m tired of stomping around that track.”

“Then pick up your feet, slacker,” someone else said, none of them turning their heads more than an inch or so as they whispered.

“Legionmaster,” someone else warned, with the whispering dying out.

The maturia commander walked out onto the wide promenade that separated various training zones used for structured challenges and stopped at the edge of the orisect formation, but the woman next to him, who was even more blonde than him, kept moving and strode out in front of all of them, beginning to speak as soon as she passed the first child.

“I am Archon Sara-012,” she said, seeing some of their little eyes go wide with surprise. “I helped create Canderous and I have been watching your progress very closely. Up until recently I’ve been pleased with the reports I saw…but not lately,” she said, stopping in front of the center of the formation and placing her hands on her hips as a frown found its way onto her face. “So what gives?”

She let the question hang there for a moment, but no one responded. “Your training scores suck. Someone tell me why.”

“It’s boring,” one extra small boy said from the second row.

“Boring?” Sara repeated, sounding as if his words were unbelievably close to treason. “Training is everything!”

She looked across the entire formation, making eye contact in all directions with one long sweep of her head. “Sit down, younglings,” she said, motioning with her hand.

As a group they sat, cross-legged, but still maintaining their rows.

“Do you want to grow old and die?” she asked, beginning to pace up and down the line but keeping a good two meters between her and them at all times so it didn’t feel like she was towering over them. “Do you want your body to slowly fall apart? Do you want it to malfunction and rot away while you’re still alive? Of course not, but then again you’ve never seen it happen. You’ve never seen old people. All your handlers are fit, and aside from me they’re probably the only other people you’ve met face to face.”

“But you have seen the pictures…I know, because I incorporated them into your studies. What the pictures don’t tell you is how much pain they’re in. People lie about growing old being a natural part of life, but what it really is is failure. Failure of your body hurts…a lot. Before I joined Star Force I knew a lot of old people, and they complained about aches and pains on a regular basis. Others tried to pretend there was nothing wrong, but every now and then you could see them hurting anyway. Old age is not pleasant. It is not fun. It is not funny.

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