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Epilogue

Sunadin and
Myden talked for a while before Siata and Baeron entered the brig. Myden handed
Baeron an injector.

“The drug inside
this suppresses telepathy in my people for up to ten standard days per dose,”
he explained.

Baeron looked at
it for a moment, “Alright.”

Myden went to
leave.

“Come visit when
you have the time,” Sunadin said.

“I will,” Myden
said before walking out the door.

Sunadin turned
to Siata. “Where will I be kept for the duration?”

“We will bring
you to Confederation Headquarters,” Siata answered. “After that we’re not
sure.”

“I will
cooperate with anything the Confederation asks of me,” Sunadin said.

“Then answer
this question,” Siata started. “Who controls the machine?”

Sunadin laughed.
“Such a thing I’m not privy to. I suspect General Regen knows, and perhaps
Myden.”

Baeron growled.
“I’d better go talk to him.”

“Don’t bother,”
Siata said. “If Myden knows and hasn’t told us it means we don’t need to know.”

“As you wish
captain,” Baeron said.

“You trust Myden
a lot, don’t you?” Sunadin asked.

“Enough to know
he knows what’s best,” Siata said. “One more question before we leave. How many
Greys like you are left?”

“In all of Alden
there are less than a hundred,” Sunadin answered.

“What happened
to the others?” Baeron asked.

“They were
deemed unnecessary by god, therefore, euthanized,” Sunadin said.

* *
*

After giving as
many ladies as he could a dance Brian sat down to enjoy some food. Valis sat
next to him and did likewise.

“This world is
beautiful,” Brian said.

“I suspect we’ll
feel the same when we set foot on Earth,” Valis said.

“Do you think we
have a chance?” he asked.

She nodded. “The
Minerva says our chances of winning the war increased to fifty percent. I’ll
take that any day.”

“Fifty percent
for you is a sure thing,” Brian said. “What is that?”

She looked at
her plate and noticed she’d taken a piece of what looked like lasagna. To
Brian’s keen nose it smelled just like it as well.

“Seles said she
was experimenting with recipes from Earth,” Valis said. “It smelled good, so
I’d thought I’d give it a try.”

Brian looked at
one of the buffet tables and noticed a number of Earth foods from his memories.
The most popular seemed to be pizza, lasagna, and donuts.

“Cultural
imperialism at its worst,” he said. “Well, I have to get back to the Freedom.
Let’s get together tomorrow night.”

“Is it one of
your free nights?” Valis asked.

“You got it,”
Brian said.

When he went to
leave Valis watched him carefully. As he stopped to talk with someone along the
way, Valis saw a ghostly form of Brian step out of his body and wave to her
before disappearing. When he walked away for real a terrible sense of dread
came over her. The noise and fanfare from the celebration muted as she saw him
disappear into the night.

15
^thof Ni, 4565
G.S.Y

Day 113 of the Grey War

Confirmed Casualties:
172569636103 Dead/M.I.A.

Afterword

If
this is the first book written by me that you’ve read I’m betting you’re
confused. I understand this all too well because I’ve jumped into the middle of
an ongoing series without a clue where it started. This series began when I
started writing
The Lost Hero
in the spring of 2007. In the years after
that I wrote
Sands of Aquarius
and
Sojourn Into Despair
. I then
decided to call the first three books The Heaven Saga. In 2013 I wrote the
Freedom Saga, which includes
Heaven’s Light
,
Freedom’s Bell
, and
The
Dawn of Liberty
. Those of you who have already read them know this and are
likely tuning out by now. For the sake of those joining the series at this time
I thought I’d give them some insight.

Many
of you are probably asking: “Why bother changing the saga name if it’s an
ongoing series?” I understand your line of thinking and was originally going to
do it like that. But as I wrote the books I realized I had to organize the
series in a way readers could easily reference. The Heaven Saga takes place on
the Kalaidian warship named the Avoni. Avoni is actually the word of “heaven”,
or “above the clouds” in Kalaidian. I chose against using The Avoni Saga
because it sounded a bit too much like a certain makeup product. The Freedom
Saga takes place on the ship called the Freedom, so it’s self-explanatory. And
finally, the place we’re at now is The Grey War Saga. It’s called this because
the main plot is the galaxy wide war you’ve been reading about.

All
of the first three sagas are three books in length. I’ve placed the seeds of
the follow up sagas into the story and will act upon it if enough people read
my books. As too the actual length, I’m guessing the later sagas will be four
or five books long each. As I said, it all depends on you the reader. I’m sure
many of you have questions you’d like to ask of me so I’ll give my contact
information. My email address is
[email protected]
. My Twitter
account is @sandsofaquarius. I also have an author page and blog on
www.goodreads.com
. You can
message or contact me through any of these avenues if you have any questions or
need some clarification. Before ending this short segment I want to say thanks.
Thank you for taking time out of your lives to read my books. It’s an honor and
privilege knowing someone enjoyed a work of art I labored to create.