Star Trek Hunter
Rock of Ages
Scene 9: Meteor Shower
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Meteor Shower
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"I don't think anyone will ever know what happened. No one but us, and I'm not telling."

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Observer Latimah was stretched out on the park lawn, her young apprentice and lover curled up next to her. They were watching the most intense meteor shower in recorded history. The meteors had started streaking through the sky and were visible even in the daytime. Tonight, the night that their world had been scheduled to end, the meteor shower filled the sky, but tracking had indicated that very few pieces would make it through the atmosphere to strike the ground and most of those would touch down in the ocean. There would be violent storms tomorrow, but tonight the skies were clear.

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While some science skeptics were calling it a miracle, most had accepted the official story that one of their missiles had set off a tremendous explosion of a large pocket of previously undiscovered fissile material, leading to an even larger explosion of hydrogen trapped deep inside Horohondra's Object. A massive nuclear reaction far larger than all of the explosives the al semorans had ever managed to manufacture put together.

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The sky was just glorious.

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"So what will we do?" Allehandro asked.

"You will complete your training," Latimah replied. "And when your training is complete, I will retire. Once you are established in your career, you will be able to marry anyone you choose. Even me, if you so desire."

"And until then?"

Latimah smiled. "Until then, my young apprentice, we will do everything we can to not draw attention to ourselves. And we have some data to clean up…"

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