Space Legend: Resistance - Serial Story I: Saviors In The Shadows, Page 2

They turned away from one another and looked back out through the window. People could be seen preparing to flee and fleeing as word of the events in Kelgar spread. This reasserted the seriousness of the situation, and removed any remnant of their smiles. Johvad caught sight of a mother and her two children heading out of the city, encumbered by the possessions they were trying to carry what they could as they fled.

  “You and I, our Brothers and those who we now fight beside, could survive much longer than the majority of our world, much longer than them,” he said as he pointed to the mother and her children. “Do we leave them to this undeserved fate they face, especially when it is inevitable that we will have to fight or die ourselves? Do we put ourselves, us few, and our lives above the many who have no hope beside us?” Again, Zaeleth looked him squarely in the eyes.

  “No,” he conceded. “But I’ve thought about it,” he said defiantly, beginning to crack a grin as he said it.

  “I’m sure you have,” he quipped back, “but stop, you wouldn’t be able to live with yourself if you did. That’s why you’ve done what you have in your life to this point, and that’s why you’re here.” Realizing his friend was right, Zaeleth looked out to see more people running, further confirming that he could not.

  The wind whipping below him, he strained and yelled as his one-handed grip began to fail him. Just then, the hulking Faalcomana soldier became visible through his cracked visor as he neared the hatch opening. He placed his finger on the trigger and closed his eyes…