Excerpt of Intergalactic Witness Protection
But,
perhaps, I don’t need it for now. Because, once upon a time, Orion
was fleeing a moon he was once such a part of in grief and shame and
pain, heartbroken over a woman, hated by a people he loved, and
burdened with a broken boy who only wanted security.
Only,
for Orion, he was the broken boy.
I
turn to analyze my captain, smoothly taking the ship into lift-off.
Humans really are such a resilient species, to feel so deeply and
then to lose so much, only to keep living, one day at a time.
“Next
stop,” Orion calls, “the Asteroid belt.”
The
very place that was his first stop after fleeing Ganymede. And I
realize, it’s not just me who has realized that Orion and Reverend
Shipping share so much in common. He has, too.
And
that is the true reason Orion came back to the moon he fled.
Because
humans heal in such dangerous ways.
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