Dylan walked down to Engineering. "Mister Harper."
Harper looked up from his work. "Yeah, boss."
"Just tell me why. What was behind this?"
Harper sighed. "Insanity, maybe. We both got real excited over the map. Never once entered our minds that it could be a hoax. At least, I never thought so. We thought we had it planned out so perfectly. Nothing was supposed to go wrong."
"That's
the thing, Harper. It doesn't matter
wether something is supposed to happen or not. It usually just does. After all,
the Commonwealth wasn't supposed to fall, either." And they just looked at
each other, each of them lost in his own thoughts.
Finally, Harper asked. "Is Beka going to be O.K.?"
"Trance
is doing everything she can for Beka.
We'll just have to trust that." With that final word, Dylan turned around
and left.