The man placed a friendly hand on his shoulder. “You were a hero. You turned on the electricity to the fence, and along with your friend you fought off the first wave of the creatures. You bought some time, long enough for us to arrive.”
The man had explained after the attack as he was tending Ethan’s wounds that decades previously archeologists on Earth had stumbled upon the Natural Movement’s plot to sabotage the colony in ancient computer files, but that the FTL Drive hadn’t been invented until recently.
“I wish we could have made it here sooner,” he continued, “but there was nothing we could do until we had the technology to catch up to you. I’m sorry. We came as soon as we could.”
The saboteur was at her execution spot. She’d stopped weeping and was looking around her as if in a daze. Ethan had heard that even the truth drugs of the Earth humans hadn’t made her divulge the names of any co-conspirators. He hoped she really was the only one.
One of the guards raised his weapon. The woman stood still, awaiting her death.
Ethan looked away.
The wind blew.
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