The Price of Power by L. A. Warren

Author:L. A. Warren [Warren, L. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JEM Publishing
Published: 2019-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

Part Two

Prologue

New Terra Histories by Malita s’Lissa s’vlor

At some point, I think I was crazy. Perhaps there were several times where I danced back and forth across the line between sanity and insanity. It’s difficult to know if there was a line at all.

Tender Training was an odd thing. While it had been bad the first time, the second time broke me. It transformed me.

I lost something the second time around—a piece of my humanity disappeared—but I believe I gained more than I lost.

Would I do it again?

Now that’s a difficult question.

I learned several things as a result of my training with the Tenders. First, we could never make it back to Earth. Second, there was nowhere to run. And third, and this was the most important lesson, I had to find a different solution. For that, I needed to redefine the problem.

Not once did it occur to me I might fail. My grandfather didn’t raise me to lose. He taught me to persevere until winning was the only option left.

I still didn’t know what to do, but I kept moving forward. That was the secret to success. Keep moving forward.

One small step at a time. As long as I did something, no matter how small the step, the solution would reveal itself.

Sounds easy, right?

It was anything but easy!

I never formed a plan. It wasn’t like one step led to the next. I had no idea how to defeat the Vendel. I just came to it in stages and by a great deal of luck.

To this day, I still don’t understand how I was never caught sneaking off the Confinement Deck. Either I was truly lucky, or I had a better command of the WOR-skill than I thought.

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