DAY 15
Archangel sat behind the burned out wreck of a car. He was trying to control his breathing. He knew coming to a town would be a bad idea and he had been right. But the need to drink fresh water was a greater than any worry he had about the enemy. Gun fire exploded from behind him. He looked to his left and saw Skeeter on the other side of the road behind another car firing at the five Centurions who had found them. He took a deep breath and then turned around and opened fire taking down one of the Cylons with his first volley of shots.
Skeeter took the opportunity to move a little further down the street under Archangel's covering fire. He stopped in the safety of a shop door way, turned and fired. There were now only three of the bullet heads left now. They had started to advance towards his friend. Skeeter aimed at the one closest to Archangel and took it down. He had taken his attention away from the other two and only just noticed one of them was advancing towards him, quickly. He emptied the remaining of his magazine into the advancing Cylon.
At the same time Skeeter ran out of ammo so did Archangel. The one remaining Cylon began to advance towards Archangel. He reached for a new magazine but knew he didn't have time to reload. He grabbed a grenade from his belt and threw it and dived for cover. Just as he hit the deck the Cylon exploded. Skeeter protected by the wall of the shop dived on the ground as he heard the explosion. He peeked out a few moments later to see while the Centurion was in pieces it was still moving with its one remaining arm towards Archangel.
Archangel could hear the malfunctioning Cylon still moving. He stood up and took one of his sidearms from its holster. He looked over to see his friend was okay before walking towards the robot. It looked up at him and tried to grab him. Archangel emptied the hand gun's magazine into the robot making sure it was destroyed. As he ejected the magazine and reloaded it he turned to his friend.
"You okay?" he asked.
"Yeah, you?"
"Still in one piece. Well that was fun!" he said with a smile.
Skeeter gave out a little laugh, "That's one way of putting it. We heading back to the others now?"
"I think that would be best. No telling if they'll send more to find out what happened to these ones and I think we've had enough fire fights for one day."
He picked up his rifle and reloaded that as they both walked off down the street.
"Looks like we're not the first to put up a fight here." Skeeter said as they walked down what must have once been a nice welcoming town main street. Bullet holes and evidence of explosive damage could be seen everywhere.
"Hope someone managed to survive." Archangel said.
"We haven't seen anyone else for a week, we can't be the only ones left."
"As long as we don't run in to anyone else like Hackerson, I hope we're not the only ones left."
"That seems like a lifetime ago now. So much has been happening." Skeeter replied.
"Well we have about 100 more miles to go to the next airbase, there has to be something more than bodies and burned out cars between here and there."
"100 miles is going to take a long time on foot."
"I know, but hopefully we'll be able to find some new transport soon." Archangel said.
Three days ago they had to abandon their trucks. The road they had to go on had been destroyed by a Cylon bomb. The group had taken the things they could carry and begun the long trek by foot.
"I do think we should find somewhere and hold up for a few days so we can all get rested up. Some of the way we have to go is going to be up hill, some of it even mountainous."
"Do you think we'll be safe stopping for so long?"
"Yeah there is a military and governmental bunker up ahead, we'll be safe enough there."
Vannick sat with the others waiting for Archangel and Skeeter's return. He had spent the time checking their ammunition and things weren't looking good. He looked at the assorted bullets and explosives in front of him and sighed.
"Judging by the expression on your face things aren't good?" Grace asked.
"If the Cylons keep attacking us at the rate they have been, we'll be throwing rocks in two days. We have to find somewhere we can reload." Vannick replied.
Danny sat listening to the conversation but did not join in. He had been doing more listening since the air field. He felt helpless, even before his accident, but now he was more of a liability than he was before. He had decided that he would just carry as much as he could and do whatever he was told. It was better that way. Archangel had been spending more time with Grace recently and had less time for him. Skeeter still had time for him but he seemed to have become good friends with Vannick which was making him feel more and more out of place.
"We're back." Archangel said as they walked back into camp.
"Any joy?" Grace asked.
"Eight bottles, better than nothing." Archangel replied.
"We got into one hell of a fire fight with some toasters. They found us as we were leaving." Skeeter said.
"Well then you're not going to like what I have to tell you." Vannick said.
"What?" Archangel asked.
"I did an inventory on our ammo situation and it's not good." He replied.
"How bad?" Archangel asked.
"Eight rifle magazines, twelve hand gun clips and seven grenades each."
"Frak me that's not good." Skeeter replied.
"We've still got a few magazines left on us, but not much." Archangel said.
"I've got about 30 shotgun shells." Skeeter said.
"Well I've got something that might help a little bit but we're still going to have to go find more ammo as a matter of urgency." Archangel said.
He walked over to his things and took out a large silver case.
"I don't know why I didn't break these out in the first place."
He opened the case to reveal more weapons. "Okay I've got two grenade launchers and three grenades to go with each of them. Take the rifle magazines you were going to give me and split them between the rest of you. I was saving this for if we came up against anything bullet proof."
He took out a large rifle which had been custom made specifically for him.
"I've got six magazines for this full of armour piercing rounds, I'll use this from now on."
"So does that mean we go back into the town tomorrow?" Grace asked.
"We can't risk it, by the time the Cylons figure out their centurions have gone missing they'll send out more to find out where they went. There's a larger town about 10 miles north of here we'll have to see what we can find there. I was telling Skeeter that I want us all to get a few days rest as the terrain from here is going to get much harder to cross. There's a bunker up about three days ahead of us we'll be able to get some rest in safety there."
DAY 16
The group waited on the outskirts of the next town. They all lay on a bank out of sight. Archangel looked through his binoculars.
"Are we good to go?" Danny asked.
"I can't see anything, we should be okay." Archangel said as he began to stand up. Vannick quickly grabbed him and pulled him back down to the ground.
"No body move." He said, before putting his finger to his mouth.
A large group of centurions appeared at the top of the street they were no more than 50ft away from. Following them, a large convoy of vehicles moving down the road. There were dozens of Centurions flanking either side of the large vehicles. Vannick nudged Archangel and pointed. They couldn't believe their eyes, there were two men walking with them. One tall with light brown hair and another shorter and a lot older, not only that but there were at least six men identical to them.
"What the frak?" Archangel whispered.
The massive convoy moved quite slowly and none of them dared to make a sound in case they were heard. Archangel took hold of his rifle, just in case. As the men passed they could hear them talking.
"Is there any sign of them?" 2 asked.
"No there has been no trace since yesterday. They can't be very far away. I'm hoping this isn't a mistake." 1 replied.
"We all decided, yes the plan was to eradicate all the humans but this was an experiment, we had to see what would happen. Remember this can be stopped at any time." 2 added
They all looked at each other. Minutes later the last vehicle and centurion had passed.
"Human cylons?! Human fraking cylons, no wonder they wiped us out!" Skeeter exclaimed.
"They have to be Cylons. There's no way two sets of sextuplets just happen to be helping them." Vannick said.
"You guys hang back, I'm going to see how far away they are." Archangel said.
With his rifle held tightly in his hands he moved from his hiding place. He looked to see they had now passed where the road turned away and were out of sight. What concerned him more than the human Cylons, was what they had been saying. An experiment, what were they talking about? It had to be them.
"Okay let's move." Archangel said.
They quickly ran over the road and down the street facing them. He stopped for a second, deep in thought. What the frak was going on? He thought they were still alive because they had been fighting but now he was starting to wonder.
"You okay?" Grace asked him.
"No not really. Did you hear what they said?" he replied.
"We're an experiment." She replied.
"Yeah that can be stopped at any time. They're letting us survive."
"No way, we're alive because we've been destroying every last toaster they sent against us." Skeeter said.
"How are we going to know whose human and who isn't from now on?" Danny asked.
It was the question no one wanted to answer.
"We won't." Grace said.
"Come on, even if it is them letting us live, we can't stay here. We have to find some ammo and keep going." Archangel said.
The group carried on walking down the deserted streets. Even though they walked in silence everyone's thoughts were on what they had just seen. When Grace had seen the 1's and 2's, she had become very quickly concerned some of her sister models may have been with them, but thankfully, they weren't. Things were becoming more and more complicated very quickly. It was only a matter of time now before they saw another 6, then her mission would be over. This was the first time she had wanted to speak to one of her fellow Cylons, to tell them to keep any 6's far away from them. Surely they would have already thought of that? They didn't want her cover blown and she certainly didn't.
"Guys, we might find some more ammo there." Vannick said.
They all turned to see him pointing to a police station.
"Okay let's make this quick." Archangel replied.
They darted across the street and into the deserted police station.
"Vannick, you, Skeeter and Danny search down here. Grace and I will go upstairs. Call in in 5 minutes."
"Yes sir." Vannick replied.
The station was totally deserted. There were even plates of food that had been left when people must have run when they heard about the attack. As they walked past some of the desks, Skeeter saw a packet of cigarettes. He picked it up and lit one.
"Urgh menthol." He said.
Vannick let out a laugh.
"I thought you hated menthol?" Danny asked as Skeeter continued to smoke it.
"That's true but a cigarettes a cigarette." He replied with a grin.
As they left the office area they found one of the armoires.
Vannick took his radio from his belt, "Archangel we found an armoury."
"Good we'll keep looking up here, see what else we can find." He replied.
Grace watched Archangel as they searched for more bullets. Since she had read his file on the base ship she had never imagined not only that she would be chosen, but that she would start to fall in what she assumed, was in love with him.
"You okay?" she asked him.
"Yeah just a bit head fraked. Cylons who look like humans, it had never even crossed my mind. And what they said, that disturbs me the most." He replied.
She took hold of his hand and turned him towards her. "We are alive because we've been fighting for our lives, no other reason. We can't change anything we've been doing." She smiled at him.
"You know there have been times when I wondered what the point of all this has been. Running fighting and for what? A raptor that may or may not be there and to a planet that is probably worse off than this one? Then I look at you and I know why I'm doing it. The world may be ruined but I don't care anymore, as long as we stay alive."
She smiled but couldn't help wondering what he would do if he ever found out she was a Cylon? Probably put a bullet between her eyes. He kissed her and all her worries went away.
"We better get back to looking." He said with a smile.
"We hit the jackpot guys." Danny said as they loaded up their bags with bullets.
"That we did." Skeeter replied.
They all stopped when they heard a crash from the office. Vannick put his finger to his mouth and signalled them to pick up the bags. He moved to the door and peered out. Sure enough there were two centurions in the office. Skeeter and Danny moved up behind him. He signalled them the toasters were outside.
"We're coming down now." They both heard from over the radio.
The two centurions heard that and came bounding towards them. Vannick moved out and opened fire taking one of them down, followed by Skeeter who took out the other one with his shotgun.
Vannick took his radio from his belt.
"Captain, we've just taken down two centurions." He said.
"Okay we're on our way." Archangel replied.
Archangel and Grace both quickly made their way to the stair way. He quickly checked down the stairs and saw a centurion standing at the bottom. He took a grenade from his belt and threw it down. It bounced down the stairs. The Cylon heard the noise too, it turned, seeing the grenade, then looking up at them. When the centurion saw Grace, it's head tilted to the side, then at Archangel. As it raised its guns towards Hunter, BOOM.
"Come on, let's move."
When they got to the bottom of the stairs they were met by the others.
"We have to get out of here fast." Skeeter said.
"The door's back that way." Archangel replied.
"Yeah we can't go that way, we just passed by the door, there are about a dozen centurions outside." Vannick said.
"Let's head to the back. Did you find much ammo?" Archangel asked.
"Oh yeah." Skeeter replied.
They all moved as quickly as they could, so far so good. As they reached the back of the police station they found the emergency exit. Skeeter tried the handle but it was locked.
"Stand back." Vannick said shooting the lock out. Outside a large car park showed no sign of any cylons.
"How the frak did they even find us? We heard them say they didn't know where we are." Skeeter said.
"I guess they must have just been patrolling the area." Archangel replied.
"Guys should we take a couple of these cars?" Danny asked.
"No, we stay on foot. If there are more of them, we'll only attract more attention." Archangel replied.
As they reached the end of the car park they checked both ends of the street and saw nothing.
"Which way?" Grace asked.
"We need to keep heading north, we need to get to that bunker." Archangel replied, "We need to move quickly and quietly."
The town that used to be full of life was now silent. They quickly made their way through the empty streets. Without speaking Archangel signalled them to head into the tree line at the end of the road. They all quickly darted into the trees completely unseen.
Danny lagged at the rear as the others walked ahead. No one had even seemed to notice that he hadn't been talking much over the last few days. He didn't really even mind any more. Despite their situation everyone seemed happy. He watched Archangel and Grace walking out in front. He knew they liked each other, he could tell by the way they looked and kept smiling at one another. He was happy for them, if indeed that was what was happening, he knew that he was often wrong about things, but he was sure he was right this time. His hand had stopped hurting a few days ago but he still took the pain killers they had taken from the air base. He was still upset about it but he had decided to try and hide it.
"You okay buddy?" Skeeter asked.
Danny nodded his head, "Yeah I'm fine, are you okay?" he replied.
"Yeah I'm good. You've been a little quiet today. Anything you want to talk about?"
"No I'm fine." he replied.
"You know you can still talk to me. I know I've been a little short with you recently and I'm really sorry about that." Skeeter apologised.
"It's okay. I know I can be annoying."
"No it's my fault. At first I wasn't handling things very well and I took it out on you. There's no excuse for that."
"Honestly Skeeter it's okay. This has been hard on everyone."
"How's your hand?"
"It's okay, the pain has stopped, it just tingles a lot." Danny replied looking down at his hand.
"Have you been changing the bandage?"
Danny nodded his head, "Grace helped me with it last night. She's nice I like her."
"We all do, especially Mark."
"I thought so. I'm glad for him." Danny replied with a smile.
"Me too buddy, who would have thought it would take the end of the world for him to find someone."
Hours later they were still walking and were preparing to find somewhere to settle in for the night. As they walked they could see Lake Sagittaron, the largest lake in the colonies to their right as they walked.
"It is beautiful." Grace said as they walked. The orange glow from the sun as it was setting behind the nuclear clouds glittered and danced across the water.
"It is. I remember when I was a kid my dad brought me out here fishing every summer. We would come here for a week during summer vacation just the two of us and sit and fish." Archangel replied.
"They must be nice memories." She replied.
"They are. I haven't been here since I was 15 but it's still as beautiful as I remember."
Vannick came rushing over, "Boss there's a log cabin up ahead."
"Looks like we've found our place to settle in for the night." Archangel replied.
The cabin was quite large from the outside, it was deep enough into the trees so it couldn't even be seen from the lake. It appeared there was no one around. The group had stayed in the tree line while they looked around.
"Okay Vannick and I will go and check the cabin, I want you guys to stay here." Archangel said.
Both men moved out of their cover towards the cabin in silence. They reached the door quickly and went inside. The cabin was furnished nicely. They moved through the inside quickly checking all the rooms and finding no one.
"Looks like we're going to sleep well tonight." Vannick said after they had checked the last room.
"It's about time we had some luck." Archangel replied, "I'll go get the others."
When he reached the front door he signalled to the others to come inside. All their faces lit up when they saw their home for the evening. Skeeter dropped down onto one of the sofas in the living room area.
"This is nice." Skeeter said.
"There's food we can eat in the kitchen." Vannick said as he came through.
"Looks like we've fallen on our feet this time." Grace said.
As night came, the cabin fell into darkness. As much as they wanted to light a fire there was too big a risk of being seen. Skeeter and Danny had volunteered to stay down stairs to keep an eye out for any Cylons. As Archangel walked into the big bedroom the light from the moon that managed to fight its way through the nuclear clouds lit up the room. Grace was already lying in bed.
"Hey." She said as she saw him walk in.
"Room in there for another?" he asked with a grin on his face.
"I think we can manage that." She replied.
As he got into bed, Grace put her head on his chest and her arms round him.
"I could get used to this." He said.
"If we get rescued we can do this more often." She replied.
"When we get rescued I think we should spend the rest of our lives like this."
She looked up at him, "In all seriousness if we get rescued you're going to get back into the cockpit aren't you?"
"I want to live my life if we get picked up and I want to live it with you. When we get rescued I'm giving that up."
"Seriously?" she asked.
"Seriously. I've lived my entire adult life training for the military with one singular thought in my mind. I've achieved all my goals in the military and ignored anything else. I want to focus on other things now, I want to focus on you."
Grace was genuinely shocked by what he had said, and for the first time since this all started, she longed to be rescued by the humans. As she kissed him for the first time in her life she felt nothing but happiness and for the first time she felt love and let the passion of the moment take her over.
DAY 17
Skeeter sat on the porch of the cabin with a cigarette in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other. The lake looked beautiful with the orange glow from the sun fighting to shine through the nuclear clouds. It reminded him of better times, back home in Freedom. In a morning, in good weather, he would sit on the roof of the garage, watching the sun rise over the moutains. As he took a drag from the cigarette he saw Danny appear next to him.
"Morning." Danny said.
"Hey buddy did you sleep well?"
"Not really, I kept having dreams I was being chased by Centurions." He replied.
"I hate that, the one place we should be able to relax and not think about centurions and then we spend all night dreaming about them."
"Do you have those dreams?" he asked.
Skeeter nodded his head, "Yeah, I usually wake up just before they catch or kill me."
"Sometimes I wish I'd died in one of the explosions." Danny said with sadness in his voice.
Skeeter was shocked, "You shouldn't think that way."
"Well I do, I think you guys would have an easier time if you didn't have to keep looking out for me."
"That's not true and I want you to stop thinking like that. We look out for each other. You're my brother. Truth is, you think it's just me that keeps an eye on you, but it's you that looks after me. Without you, I'd be a mess and we both know that's true. We look after each other, it's what brothers do."
Danny nodded his head. "Okay." he smiled.
"You know if you need to talk about anything you can talk to me, right?"
Danny nodded his head again.
Skeeter caught a glimpse of something from the corner of his eye. He dropped his cigarette and put his coffee down and looked to where he thought he'd seen something.
"What is it?" Danny asked.
"I'm not sure I thought I.." he was cut off by the sound of gun fire. They both dived for the door way as Skeeter returned fire with his sidearm. As they got into the house they ran for their weapons and moments later they were joined by the others.
"How many?" Vannick asked.
"I don't know I only caught a glimpse." Skeeter replied.
Vannick went to the window and opened fire before moving back for cover.
"Seven on the left, five on the right." He said.
"We have to go, now." Archangel said.
"There's a door at the back." Grace said.
"Okay let's move." Archangel said. He got to the window and fired one of the rocket launchers before joining the others.
The back of the house was clear as they all moved out.
"We need to get up this hill and get to higher ground." Vannick said.
As they began to run, Archangel and Vannick gave covering fire for the others. Danny and Grace were out ahead. Skeeter stopped by a large tree and began to open fire.
"Come on." Skeeter shouted to Archangel and Vannick before gave them cover while they moved out.
Archangel saw Danny and Grace waiting up ahead, "You two keep going we'll catch up." He yelled.
As Archangel and Vannick caught up with Skeeter they all turned to return fire to the now fifteen Cylons who were pursuing. As they were about to run and join Grace and Danny there was a large explosion cutting them off.
"We won't make it, we have to find better cover." Vannick said.
Archangel quickly scanned the horizon and saw a dry ditch ahead.
"Over there, we can hold up there better."
Vannick and Skeeter both threw grenades before making a run for it.
Danny and Grace managed to make it further up the steep hill. They turned to see the other pinned down by enemy fire.
"We have to help them." Danny said.
"We'll get hit by fire if we head back down. They're laying down fire between us and them."
"But they can't get to us." He replied.
It suddenly dawned on Grace. 3 had told her they'd split the group when it was time. The centurions were keeping them apart till she had carried out her orders. She knew that if she didn't do this, they would all die. That made the horrible decision easier for her, she couldn't let Archangel die.
"We have to keep moving, we'll find somewhere we can fight back. We're in the open here. Danny come on now."
She turned and pulled Danny with her. Reluctantly he followed, watching with fear and guilt. He hoped this wouldn't be the last time he saw his friends.
The Cylons barrage of fire was heavier than they had experienced before. Vannick fired another grenade at the oncoming centurions destroying some and causing others to pause.
"They're not coming any closer." Skeeter said.
As Archangel looked through his scope he saw a 1 behind the centurions. He aimed his rifle and put a bullet between the his eyes.
The three of them kept firing at the centurions. No matter how many they took out more kept appearing.
"If this is it, just wanted you guys to know it was fun while it lasted." Skeeter said.
"I'll be fraked if I'm gonna die here." Vannick replied as he reloaded his rifle.
Danny was running at full pelt through the undergrowth. He turned to see if Grace was still behind him and stopped in his tracks, she wasn't there. He took out his sidearm with his good hand and began to head back, retracing his footsteps.
"GRACE." He yelled.
He prayed nothing had happened to her, how could he tell Mark he hadn't been keeping an eye on her? Suddenly he saw her just standing in front of him. She looked so sad, and wiped tears from her face. Then a centurion appeared. He raised his gun, but not in time. The metal monster hit him hard. He felt his jaw shatter as he flew through the air and landed on a heap on the ground. He tried to tell Grace to run, but he couldn't speak, the pain in his face was worse than his hand had been. Blood poured from his mouth. He tried to stand up, but Grace was on him in a flash. Her knees on his chest she began to hit him hard around the head. He couldn't understand what was happening. As Grace stopped hitting him she grabbed him by the throat. Through blurred vision he saw her looking down on him, tears rolling down her face. He tried to scream for Skeeter and Mark, but he couldn't make any sound at all.
"I'm sorry Danny but this has to be done. I'm a Cylon."
Danny began to cry, he couldn't believe what he was hearing, he wanted to fight back but the pain coursing through his body was too much for him. He managed to raise his good arm but Grace grabbed it with her free arm and snapped his wrist under the pressure of her grip.
"They made me pick, either you or Skeeter. It was no choice, it had to be you. Mark needs Skeeter if he is going to survive this. If I don't kill you, they'll drop a nuke on us and you all die."
She began to hit him again with all her strength. He felt his nose break and his skull crack as the relentless punches kept coming. Then she stopped and stood up. She raised her hand gun as she stood over him.
"They've stopped!" Vannick said.
All three of them looked up and saw the centurions were gone.
"Come on we have to go." Archangel said.
The three of them quickly but cautiously got up and made their way in the direction Danny and Grace had gone.
"I'm sorry. I truly am. I'll make sure Mark and Skeeter live. I promise." Grace said as she pulled the trigger shooting him in the chest.
She looked up at the centurion before shooting it emptying the magazine into it. She kneeled down beside Danny as life began to drain away from him. He looked up at her, terror and fear in his eyes as she began to stroke his hair.
"I truly am sorry." She said quietly.
Moments later Archangel and the others appeared and stopped in their tracks.
"Danny." Skeeter said rushing over to his friend.
Danny tried to tell Skeeter but could only manage gurgling noises.
"Don't worry buddy you'll be okay, it's not that bad." Skeeter said, tears rolling down his face. Everyone knew it was a lie, including Danny. Grace stood up.
Everyone stood in silence, not knowing what to say.
"It's okay, you're going to be okay." Skeeter said to his friend.
Moments later it was all over. Skeeter hugged his friend before standing up.
"What the frak happened?" he yelled walking towards Grace.
She backed off as Archangel stood in front of her. He put his hand on Skeeter's shoulder.
"We were ambushed by a centurion," she said pointing to the robot, "Danny pushed me out of the way, he saved my life. There was nothing I could do. Before I knew what was happening it had grabbed him by the throat, it hit him, repeatedly before letting him go. It managed to get a shot off before I emptied my gun into it. I'm sorry there was nothing I could do."
"It's okay, it's not your fault." Archangel said hugging her.
"It's not okay," Skeeter yelled, "I was supposed to look after him, I promised his mother, I was supposed to look after him."
He fell to his knees sobbing. Archangel walked over to him.
"We have to go." He said wiping tears from his eyes.
"We can't leave him here." Skeeter replied.
"We're not going to." Archangel said.
Archangel moved over to his dead friend and managed to pick him up.
As the sun began to go down the four survivors stood over the freshly dug grave of their friend.
"Lords of Kobol hear our prayers. Take the soul of our fallen friend Danny into your arms. Keep him safe and reunite him with his mother and the souls of all those taken before who loved and cared for him." Archangel said.
Skeeter wiped his eyes before he began to speak, "He didn't have an easy life but he made the best of everything it gave him. He was one of the kindest, gentlest people I've ever met and I'm proud to be able to call him my friend. I swear to you Danny that I will destroy every Cylon I find. I will make them pay for what they did. And I'll see you again when it's my time. Rest in peace my friend, you will be missed. So say we all."
"So say we all." The others said together.
Grace walked over and hugged Skeeter.
"I'm sorry Skeeter, I truly am." She said.
"It's not your fault. He saved your life, he was a hero." Skeeter replied.
Grace felt guilty and she hated it, she hated herself. What she had done to them and what she and her kind continued to do to them every day. It was at that moment she made up her mind, for better or worse she was turning her back on her people. They had driven her to this. They had sent her to these people but they hadn't counted on one thing, she had fallen in love.
