Full Summary:

Makela Ketating is the last of her people. At the age of ten, she became known as the youngest Runner in the Pegasus Galaxy. Now, though, she is no longer fighting for her own survival. Knowing that the Wraith never go back to a planet they have completely culled (wiped out) the planet of human life, she seeks refuge there for the children she rescues from Wraith ravaged worlds. What happens when she runs first into Ford, then Todd? Will Todd help Makela and get the rest back to Atlantis? And will she and her children be welcomes on Atlantis?

Makela Ketating:

I am the youngest Runner. I am 18-years-old. I have been a Runner since I was ten-years-old, since my people were wiped out by the wraith. And I am there only hope. Children from around the galaxy whose people have been taken by the wraith find a home on my home planet, also wiped out by the wraith. They never come back to an eradicated planet. To keep them safe, I only return to the planet to leave food and warn them to go underground. My home planet had underground catacombs and that is where the children hide.

On the surface, I make it look like no one has survived the attack, then I wait for the wraith to walk through the gate before I attack. They have already fallen into my trap. The children stay mostly underground for the next week. I have a human friend that I can trust that journey's back to them to tell them it is safe to come out. He stays with them until his men need him. He seems good with kids, as if he has done it before.

But more of me and my people; we used to be a proud people. We had Ancient weapons that we used whenever the wraith came, but the last time they came, we were outnumbered, there were just too many of them. My people were the Mirianic, a proud people and at time vicious people. Our Army was known to take no prisoners. So when the planet was culled when I was ten, I became one of the many victims. I thought I would be eaten, but no, the Queen saw the fire in my eyes and made me a Runner instead. So at the age of ten, I became the youngest Runner in the Pegasus Galaxy.

I picked up weapons at every world I was on. in total, I had four swords (carried on my back), about twenty daggers hidden on my body, a gun in which I stole from a 'space traveler' (same gun as Ronon's), a P90 that I grabbed from a dead soldier, multiple 9mm guns (also grabbed from dead soldiers and all their ammo), a homemade bow with metal arrows, a crossbow with metal tipped wood arrows, sling shot with sharp pieces of rock/minerals and metal that were small enough to penetrate skin, a few wraith stunners, a few machetes, a whip, four sets of metal cuffs (like medieval handcuffs), three axes (imagine Gimli's axe from LOTR), a stash of spears/arrows with crystal points, and a small satchel of C4. All the weapons that I didn't carry on me were stashed in a bag in which I carried on my shoulders as I traveled.

In my opinion, the weapons with the crystal points hurt the worst because I had made them so they went through three people (mostly wraith) at a time. I was used to fighting by and for myself. The kids were an extra. I didn't know what to do when they came to me for help. So I figured if I took them back to the home planet of the Mirianic, the wraith would never come back. I never imagined that a Wraith would personally seek me out and help me get the Wraith transmitter out of my body. Nor did I expect my human friend to know people that could help the children I was trying so hard to protect.

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