Evolution by R S Penney

Author:R S Penney [Penney, R S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Creativia
Published: 2017-11-09T22:00:00+00:00

Lying in bed and listening to the sound of Gabi breathing next to her, Anna found herself staring up at the ceiling and thinking deeply about her future. So…She was going back to Leyria after all. A part of her was relieved – this planet had nurtured a cynicism that she would never have thought herself capable of – but leaving did feel like giving up. Worse, it felt like she was letting the bigots win.

Every slight by the people – mostly men – who should have respected her position felt like an open declaration that she couldn't do this job, and that just made her more determined to prove them wrong. Decisively. On the other hand, it was an honour and a recognition of her talents to be chosen for this task force. She could do a lot more good working to bring down Slade. Being a Keeper was about more than satisfying her own ego; in the end, it didn't matter what other people thought.

She was going; there was really no way of getting around that. It was best for the people she was meant to protect and for her career as well. The truth of that had been swirling around in her mind for nearly an hour because thinking about her career allowed her to avoid thinking about the one thing she really didn't want to think about.

Her relationship with Bradley was over.

On some level, Anna knew that she should have expected as much; the likelihood that she would live out the rest of her life on Earth was extremely small, and that would have been true even if this position had been every bit as fulfilling as she had hoped it would be when she applied for the transfer. Keepers traveled; that was just a fact of life. Sooner or later, she was going to take an assignment on another world. Bradley, on the other hand, would be ill-suited to life anywhere else in the galaxy.

Space-faring cultures were just different than their planet-bound neighbours. You didn't develop the technology to travel faster than light without also harnessing incredible power sources, without also developing nanotechnologies that could build structures and devices at the microscopic level. For centuries, her people had possessed the ability to meet the basic needs of every human being on their planet, and in a society like that, the use of currency just didn't make sense.

Bradley was accustomed to life on Earth. She had no doubt that he would be able to adapt to a moneyless society, but Bradley was a programmer; to be a programmer on her world, he would have to learn new languages, new types of algorithms.

No…

Hard as it was to admit, her relationship was over. She started crying even though she couldn't figure out why it hurt so badly. Just the other night, she had fallen asleep while wondering what it meant that she didn't feel warm and safe when she thought about her boyfriend. Why did emotions have to be such a mess of contradictions?

You can't afford to think about this now, she told herself.

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