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Her short blond hair shifted in the wind, and she appeared the very definition of peace and comfort. Like she belonged in the world that had existed before everything was scorched.
I just wish we could go one day without something taking us back. I could be perfectly happy in this place if we could just forget.
“Because it’s what you do when someone comes to your house and attacks your people. You fight back. I’m not going to let these bloodsuckers get away with that crap.”
They’ve been friends for a long time, by circumstance more than anything. When you live next door to a kid, that kid is your buddy by the rules of the universe. Male, female, alien—doesn’t matter.
“Or they ran away from the fire. Not every person on earth is as wacky-brained as you, good sir. Most people see a huge roaring inferno coming at them? They decide to cut and run. Just saying.”
Humanity and charity, my friends? Those days are long gone.
“Scared. That’s good. A fine soldier is always scared. Makes you normal. It’s how you respond to it that makes or breaks you.”
Since they had neither the words nor the eyeballs for such access, they decided to work at it the old-fashioned way: with an axe.
“A Transvice?” Mark repeated. “What does it do?” Alec held the strange weapon up as if it were some holy relic. “It makes people dissolve into thin air.”
alternative. If we don’t do this, the world will run out of resources. I firmly believe it is the most ethical decision—the risk of race extinction justifies the elimination of a
