scifi

My whole life changed after I drowned and died in the flood.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

Approaching the trail, he broke through the thicket a short distance ahead of the Empath. Causing the Empaths horse to startle as the surprised rider jerked on the reins. Cap was equally surprised to find a young girl before him instead of an older, experienced male Empath. Cap brought his horse to a quick halt. The young girl pulled a small knife from her boot and cautioned him. "I don't know where you came from, but I'm not easy prey._ Her voice shook slightly with fear as she raised the knife.Not sure how to proceed, they stared silently at each other. Cap had always believed that Empaths didn't carry weapons. This pretty, chestnut haired girl couldn't be more than 18 years old. Her long straight tresses covered the spot on her jacket where the Empathic Emblem was usually worn, causing Cap to doubt she was the one he sought. Not wanting to frighten her any more than he already had, Cap tried to explain. "I'm Commander Caplin Taylor. I__ looking for an Empath that is headed for the Western Hunting Lodge._"My name is Kendra; I am the Empath you seek._ She answered cautiously, still holding the blade. A noise from the brush drew her attention as a small rodent pounced out, trying to evade an unseen predator. Cap was just close enough to lurch forward and snatch the dirk from her hand. Her head jerked back in alarm."Bosen May has been mauled by a Sraeb, his shoulder is a mass of pulp." Cap spoke quickly not wanting to hesitate any longer.That was all Kendra needed to hear. She pushed her horse past him and headed quickly down the trail."Wait!" Cap called after her, turning his horse around. Reining in the horse, she turned back to face him annoyed by the delay. "Are you a good horseman?" Cap asked, as he stuffed her dirk in his jacket."I've been in the saddle since I was a child." She answered, abruptly."Okay so just a few years then?" Cap's rebuke angered her. Jerking the horse back toward the trail, she ignored him."Wait, I'm sorry!" Cap called after her. "It's just that I know a quicker way, if you can handle some rough terrain.""Let__ go then." Kendra replied, gruffly, turning back to face him. Without another word, Cap dove back into the brush and the girl followed.

I'm going home." - Celeste"To never return?" - Uway"Yes, show me the way to never return." - CelesteALL LIGHT WILL FALL

A pulse. Beat-beating against her palm. Alive. Beat by beat the bottomless whirlwind of perceptions and data and images and sensations careening through her mind__o many how can this tiny skull hold them all__egan to abate in time to the rhythm of not her pulse, but his.

Because we were the good guys. We were in the right. The universe looks out for people who act with honor in furtherance of an honorable cause. It must, or we never would have gotten this far as a species.___e won__his little conflict and a thousand like it__ecause we were destined to win. The universe will allow no other outcome.

My vengeance was of a different kind. It bore no offense and no ill towards injustice. It had no emotion. Blood and Death. That's all it was." - Celeste- ALL LIGHT WILL FALL

What do you want me to do? Arrest them all?_ __hen you can, absolutely._ __nd when I can__?_ __o whatever is necessary to remove their ability to act against us__gainst humanity._ __ou mean kill them._ Her expression darkened in what he sensed was sorrow, but her shoulders rose. __f that__ what it takes.

I'm 20 years old. I spend my days in a dictionary and half my mind in Fantasy.

I__l do whatever I can to help guarantee this plan succeeds, and I__l try to make sure I__ in the right place at the right time._ __he right place and time for what?___f I knew that, ma__m, I probably wouldn__ need to be there.

She skidded around a corner, slamming her shoulder into the wall and bouncing off of it without slowing. Caleb?Silence. Forty-six meters. A long stretch of hallway. She pushed faster, harder. Twenty meters.She burst into the room in unison with a deafening crash of metal shearing metal.

What emerged from the portal was not the feared armada. Instead, it was a single ship. A familiar ship. I felt a quickening in my atoms.Clever, dangerous girl. I have been expecting you.

I don__ know if I can.__ splayed my hand on the bulkhead beside Fran's shoulder and looked her in those pretty green eyes. __t__ easier if you don__ think about it. Shut it away, think about something else. Drink, fuck, do what you gotta do. Bury it so damn deep, it can__ touch you. And before long, you__l forget what you were worried about.__er lips turned down at the corners. She closed her eyes and sighed. __s that what you do?___t works._ Or it had. Until recently. Until One somehow made me look at myself though her eyes. Now I had shit going on in my head, like not wanting to let her down. Not wanting to let any of them down. Like this life and my place in it might actually mean something. That kinda thinking would get a man killed. ~ Caleb

I have a hard time trusting a person without a couple of murders on his record, Mr. Draedax.

He wasn__ going to be able to deactivate the field, which meant there was only one choice.He__ realized early on that his arcane, profoundly alien passenger came with a cost, possibly one too high to pay and get out the other side free and clear. He__ pay it nonetheless and without complaint if the diati would only come through for him now.Caleb closed his eyes.

It's only crazy if we fail.

Caleb shoved back from the table and stood to retreat to the kitchen. __o. Find another plan.___here is no other plan. This isn__ even a plan, merely a nugget of an idea for the start of a plan that__ certain to fail and end in your deaths.

An eerie, chilling voice interrupted him to reverberate through the house. __ou believe you are safe, but you will never be safe from me. My reach is limitless, my capabilities legion. Sleep fitfully and avoid the shadows, for know that I am coming for you. When I arrive, you will pay for what you did.