Halo of Glory
Prologue
Ecclesiastes 7:2 "…for death is the destiny of every man…"
They were dead.
Tielle ran through the metallic hallways, her shoes creating a loud tapping noise as they hit the polished floor with enough force to jar her ankles and hurt her knees. She didn't care though; she just kept running, running, running…
Eventually she reached the sanctuary of her room. She pushed open her door and ran to the balcony, her refuge and place of solitude when she needed to think. Like now.
Pushing a stubborn lock of fiery red hair away from her jade green eyes, Tielle looked over the hills and valleys of her world, Hidon. How peaceful it all looked in the early morning light. But soon all of the news-holos would be buzzing with the news: the eldest three children of King Partini Satine had been in a fatal hover-car accident. And none of them, including the Crown Prince Erete, had survived.
They were all dead.
Tielle finally let her sobs break past her lips and tear through her soul. Oh, Erete! And her gentle older sisters Matani and Thoena! Gone, wiped away from the galaxy as surely as a footprint washed away by an ocean's tide.
And, thanks to her Hidonian photographic memory, this day would never fade from her mind. Each horrific detail would remain with her until the day she died
Again Tielle let her gaze travel to the landscape of Hidon. The sun was just peeking over the purple mountains, casting brilliant rays of color all throughout the endless sky. It was beautiful. So beautiful.
And now, one day, Tielle would have to rule over all of it.
Prologue
Ecclesiastes 7:2 "…for death is the destiny of every man…"
They were dead.
Tielle ran through the metallic hallways, her shoes creating a loud tapping noise as they hit the polished floor with enough force to jar her ankles and hurt her knees. She didn't care though; she just kept running, running, running…
Eventually she reached the sanctuary of her room. She pushed open her door and ran to the balcony, her refuge and place of solitude when she needed to think. Like now.
Pushing a stubborn lock of fiery red hair away from her jade green eyes, Tielle looked over the hills and valleys of her world, Hidon. How peaceful it all looked in the early morning light. But soon all of the news-holos would be buzzing with the news: the eldest three children of King Partini Satine had been in a fatal hover-car accident. And none of them, including the Crown Prince Erete, had survived.
They were all dead.
Tielle finally let her sobs break past her lips and tear through her soul. Oh, Erete! And her gentle older sisters Matani and Thoena! Gone, wiped away from the galaxy as surely as a footprint washed away by an ocean's tide.
And, thanks to her Hidonian photographic memory, this day would never fade from her mind. Each horrific detail would remain with her until the day she died
Again Tielle let her gaze travel to the landscape of Hidon. The sun was just peeking over the purple mountains, casting brilliant rays of color all throughout the endless sky. It was beautiful. So beautiful.
And now, one day, Tielle would have to rule over all of it.
