When They Saw by Kody Boye

Author:Kody Boye [Boye, Kody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-22T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Grayson was instructed to return me to where I’d initially been harvested just outside of Burgundy Hospital shortly before the delegations were to begin. With no purpose to serve and no need to be on the ship any longer, we bade our goodbyes before making our way out of the throne room, down the labyrinthine halls, then into the docking bay. There, we boarded the Harvester ship we’d arrived in and began our preparations for our descent back to the planet Earth.

By the time we disengaged from the Mothership some time later, I was both scared and relieved.

Unable to control the flood of emotions that followed, I excused myself to my room as we began to plummet through the atmosphere and settled down on the bed I had come to call my own over the past week. Though the adrenaline had since worn off, its affects were still coursing through my veins, spurring me to conjure a multitude of scenarios and the outcomes that could come as a result of Them. I first thought of civil war amongst the United States, then World Wars from the other countries. Then I thought of lesser but still important conflicts that could occur around Austin, Texas and realized that I was virtually powerless to stop any of it.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized how drastically my life was about to change. Before meeting the president, I had served a purpose—a grandiose position within the hierarchy that would soon become the new world order. Now that I was done with Them, I would have to prepare for what would undoubtedly be life after the apocalypse.

I’d spent so many years believing myself to be a victim with little sway over the world—an individual whom, though able to alter what was immediately around me, could do little in the grand scheme of things. Now that I’d been proven wrong, it seemed impossible to believe that I would be going back to when life was simple—when, upon waking up, I would rise with the knowledge that the day would be new and that anything that happened within it would affect only me and the people I interacted with.

Which led me to wonder: what would happen next?

Grayson had once said that the Coyotes would be withdrawn from the Earth once the process of assimilation began—that They would be taken aboard the Mothership to be exorcised from the world once and for all. But what would happen to Them, those phantoms who had haunted our world for so long? Would They be executed, one by one, now that Their use had expired, or would They live Their lives above the planet in a place we could not reach? And what about the other horrors that stalked the world, like the Serpents? Or the Reapers? What would be done about Them?

My thoughts were too jumbled, their purpose serving only to upset me. For that reason, I pushed them away and closed my eyes as we stopped descending through the atmosphere and began to coast through the sky.

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