by David Beers
Alistair stuck his hand out. "I hope I see you again, Romulus."
The young man took the older man's hand and shook it, smiling. "I don't. You bring a lot of stress with you nowadays."
The last person he had to see was the hardest.
Thoreaux.
Faitrin hadn't left the man's side since they'd pulled him out of that chair. Alistair thought he knew that she was going to ask on behalf of Thoreaux sooner or later. She knew it wasn’t time yet, though. Healing had to happen, and not only the physical kind.
The medbay had done good work on him. The bones were fixed, the skin regrown, and android appendages replaced the ones he'd lost. Physically, he was in better shape now than before.
Mentally?
Alistair didn't know.
He knocked on Thoreaux's door and Faitrin answered. Something had changed since Alistair knew this room was as much hers as Thoreaux's. "Do you mind if I talk to him for a minute?"
The pilot shook her head. "Not at all, Pro. We've been expecting you."
She stepped out of the room and left the door open for him. Alistair stepped in and shut the door behind him.
Thoreaux was sitting on a couch, staring forward. There were tears in his eyes. As Alistair watched, one welled and fell onto his cheek.
"I’m sorry," Alistair said, choking up too.
Thoreaux nodded, and more tears fell from his eyes. "Thank you."
Alistair blinked. "For what?"
"Faitrin told me what you did. She told me about everything you had to go through to get here and save me. Thank you."
The Fallen Titan didn't know what to say. "I…I'm so sorry, Thoreaux. I wish I could have gotten here sooner."
The dam broke, and Thoreaux began sobbing. Alistair couldn't hold back anymore; he rushed to the couch and dropped to his knees in front of his second in command. He grabbed the man's head and pulled it close to his, and they cried together.
Two soldiers in a war that had just begun, both understanding the horrors that had already happened and were yet to come.
Because this was only the beginning, and neither of them could quit. Not now.
The Written History of the Great Insurrection
When we read history, we often hear about the heroes. Their great deeds. Their happy victories.
That's why we honor them.
That's not what history is. It certainly isn't what this history is.
You've reached the end of the beginning. Through luck, daring, and brute strength, Prometheus beat back the Commonwealth. He recruited his new-age knights who would serve him until their death. He saved me.
He'd escaped his death, but his wife was still a universe away, and an empire still ruled.
We had our warlord, a being more powerful than any who ever existed before, and now it was time to assemble our army.
War was coming to Earth.
Prometheus Wakes
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Author Notes - David Beers
April 6, 2021
The third book is done, and there’s only six more left to go.
This is the longest story I’ve ever written, and while I’m enjoying it immensely, the term epic does continually come to mind.
I’ve always wanted to write an epic, something that spans long periods of time and space. I think a lot of writers probably have that dream in mind.
I just experienced someone close to me die this past weekend, so I don’t have a lot to say right now—my mind is elsewhere and still thinking about all that needs to be done before she’s laid to rest. So, forgive me, and this short author’s note. Life comes at you fast, and right now I’m just trying to keep my head above water.
Thank you, as always for reading. I hope to see you in the fourth book. I know that I certainly need a break from life, and Alistair Kane is ready to give it to me.
-db,
Atlanta, GA, 2021
Author Notes - Michael Anderle
April 7, 2021
Thank you for reading both this story and our author notes!
Sometimes, we need a story where the action is stellar – related to stars not quality – just so we can escape from the confinement of our city, our neighborhood… hell, our own house.
I’m reminded that I’m often in my imagination so much that I can’t tell the difference sometimes between what I’ve thought about and what is a real memory of my own. The more stories I do or are a part of creating, the more the problem exists. It might be due to getting older, but I’m not ready to admit that possibility.
I’m sure lawyers would @#@#^ hate me. I swear I would suck with details if called as a witness.
Thank God I’m not an engineer.
Or a plane mechanic. If I was, this would be my story in a nutshell:
“Yo!” the pilot looked down at me from the hatch as I was closing up the housing on the jet engine.
I looked up, “Yes?”
“We good to go?”
I wave him off, “Make it happen, buddy!”
Walking off, I put my hand idly in my pocket and feel four nuts and bolts. I pull them out and wonder where they came from.
Turning around, I see the plane taxiing off. “Oh… crap.”
So, I have been singularly created as an amazing vessel to create stories where the only thing I have to worry about is the story at the moment, in the moment. Which is why between books, I lose continuity on the story and have to go back to my notes about the bigger picture.
And the character names.
While I realize that the author John Ringo will never read these author notes, I’d like to apologize for that time (while reading something like book 06 or so in his Ghost series) when I might have had a few unpleasant comments about forgetting what he did in book 02.
I’m sorry, and paybacks – or karma – has been a bitch to me.
I hope you have a STELLAR week! (Amazing, not related to stars.)
Ad Aeternitatem,
Michael Anderle
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