The Battle for the Solar System (Complete Trilogy) by Sweeney Stephen

Author:Sweeney, Stephen [Sweeney, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stephen J Sweeney
Published: 2012-11-29T07:00:00+00:00

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With it now open, Kelly had hoped that, after ten years within the pendant, exposed to so many different environments, pressures and temperature changes, the small pills might have broken, dissolved or otherwise perished, granting her an excuse not to take them. Alas, they still remained perfectly preserved in the transparent container that encased them.

With some effort, she broke it open and tipped them out onto her hand. For a time she sat looking at them, at everything they represented. She now held her own life in her hand. These two pills were how she could choose to end it; how she would make her declaration that it was all over. Two tiny little pills. She would never see her father again, nor her mother, Gemma or Susan. She would never know what had become of Estelle, Dodds and Chaz. She would never know if help finally came, what or who those black-suited freaks were, or what would become of Enrique. Would he die? Would he live? There were so many questions. She would never find out what her father's ship was doing in Imperial space, or what she, herself, had been doing in Independent space, performing Special Operations for the past few months. She would never get closure on the ATAFs – those absurdly powerful starfighters that now lay at the bottom of the sea, sealed with Ifrit's cargo bay.

All of those things she contemplated whilst staring down at the pills, poking them with her fingers. Eventually, her fingers closed around their delicate form, holding them tight. They felt smooth, not chalky as they had at first appeared. She wondered how they might taste. She brought them up to her mouth.

“Would ... you not ... spare some for ... me?” a tender voice came.

Her eyes fell upon Enrique. His eyes were open, if only as open as they could be, given his state. His face was covered with dark red patches of dried blood, his features puffy from where he had been beaten.

“Enrique.” Her hand dropped away from her lips and she crawled over to where he had lain ever since having been dumped there by their captors. She reached out a hand to touch his face. She wanted to hold him, to kiss him and tell him it would be okay. But she knew that, right now, her touch might only bring him pain, and she didn't want to inflict any more of that upon him.

She felt her eyes starting to fill with tears as she looked at the face of the man she loved. Here, now, was a reason to live, to fight on to the end. She rested a hand delicately on his forearm. “I wasn't ... I mean ... I ...” She tried to explain herself to him, before she lapsed into silence. She became aware of the pills she was still clutching in her hand and cast them aside, so that they bounced and fell into the little crevasses of the padding, away from her.

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