The Eternity War: Exodus by Jamie Sawyer

Author:Jamie Sawyer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2018-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

I stood on the very brink of an abyss.

My Jackals were with me, but not just them. General Draven, Captain Heinrich, the crew of the Paladin. My mom and dad: disapproving faces glaring back at me from the edge of the crowd. Would they ever actually forgive me for joining the Simulant Operations Programme? Probably not. But what I’d done on Darkwater overshadowed that decision by a long way. There were others there too. Captain Carmine—dear old Carmine, now dead, her remains consigned to Jiog, lost to Directorate space. Even Senator Lopez, dressed in a dark jacket and slacks that screamed that he was a serious politician, but he could still be trusted.

“Fuck,” I said. “So this is how it ends, huh?”

“Maybe,” said another voice. Not just one, I realised, but all of those gathered.

“I always thought that it would be less colourful.”

The abyss was filled with light. Swirling, incandescent streamers, like distant star-nebulae but moving. It was kind of beautiful, and the glow filled me.

“This is the Maelstrom,” said the voices.

I was looking into Krell space, and it was looking back at me.

“It’s changing, right?” I asked, frowning. Which was quite difficult, as I realised that I had no actual body. I was just a thought, a reflection. “What’s happening?”

“Exodus,” said the voices. “We are leaving.”

The lights were disappearing. Only blackness remained. A great, gnawing darkness appeared beneath me.

“There will be nothing,” answered the collective chorus. Many voices at once, but no longer speaking in unity. Instead, they formed a discordant chorus that hurt to listen to. “There will be nothing to stop them.”

“To stop whom?” I cried out.

“Don’t let this happen,” said the voices, now crumbling, speaking out of rhythm. “Stop the Great Dark. Stop the Dominion.”

And then I was teetering on the edge of it. The Great Dark: the abyss itself.

There was nothing left anymore.

For an eternity, I wasn’t sure whether I’d fallen into the abyss or simply become it.

Fade, fade, fading …

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