inescapable

A tractor beam from the Imperial ship locked onto the shuttle and in seconds it became apparent they were being hauled in. The tractor was inescapable, and they knew it. The shuttle__ small yet potent engines struggled vainly against the irresistible pull. Inside, the Hammer and his men prepared to meet their fate.

My love, we can close our eyes but we cannot stop the sunrise.

No one, in the end, made it out of this life alive.

We__l sleep when we__e tired. When we wake, I__l find a way to make you laugh and I__l live in the sound of it._ My throat gets tight because I long for that day to be now. __e__l find somewhere you__e never been and we__l make it ours__ill it with memories of us. That__ what I want._ I finish with the alcohol swab. Leaning close, I gently blow on his healing wound to ease the sting. Reed takes my hand and brings it to his lips, kissing it tenderly. __nd when we get that sleep, there will never be a your side or a my side of the bed__e__l always meet in the middle. And when I hold you there, in our bed, you__l let me rest my lips here._ Reed lets go of my hand to move his thumb to caress the sensitive skin of my neck just beneath my ear. I get swept up in him: my body his with one touch. I turn and rub my cheek gently against his palm. __nd we won__ rush...ever,_ I murmur, forgetting to be scared. I want that future with him. __he world can spin around us but we__l take our time, savor every moment._ My head rests on his shoulder. __ust you and me.

Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks.