The Glassing

by Fuego En Mi Corazon

It's horrible to lose your home, your family, in a glassing. Burnt to nothing by aliens who don't even speak your language. But when you survive the worst that the Covenant can give you, you think you're done. But Hyde isn't. She finds out when her adoptive family imprisons her in their basement. Is Noble Team there to help her, or trap her again?

4. Chapter 4

Kat had not pursued her, did not even seem to follow her. Why?, Hyde wondered, then decided to keep moving. There was no point going back. The Spartans she had revered for years had let her down. They were only following orders, just like the big man from so long ago.

Hyde wanted to have friends. She wanted to see her old friend Yume. But Yume was probably dead. They would never even find her body. The whole planet was glass now, scarred beyond recognition. Like Hyde herself. There had been tales form nearby planets that they could see Sarah V glowing purple the nights it was glassed, it was too bright during the day to see it, except on the last day, when it cast a purple glow to the day's light.

What would I have thought?, Hyde wondered, What would I have felt? Despair? She would never know rest, only running, running from everything. How could she know what feelings were like anymore? She just had to shut them all out, it hurt too much to feel. At least there was still one person alive that she could turn to.

Herself, always and only.