Soren was used to ignoring distractions. She held the woman’s smokelike hand, watching with fascination as her own flesh took on the writhing character of windblown sand.
“Accept…” the woman whispered soothingly. “Embrace…Be loved…”
“Be loved,” Soren said as she felt her body dissolve beneath her, the tendrils of black curling up, consuming her.
Commander Soren was not afraid. She was at peace.
Just as everyone else at her starbase was in that same moment.
As everyone else in the galaxy would be soon enough.
The Peace of the Totality had arrived.
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