THE PLANET THAT LOVED PEOPLE (standard:science fiction, 1824 words) [4/12] show all parts
Author: Danny Raven	Added: Mar 11 2016	Views/Reads: 1822/1263	Part vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
PART 3 - CH 4

FOUR 

Sarah pushed her coffee away. “This is going to need another drink,” she
decided. 

“Wow!” exclaimed Blaze. “Does that mean I get one as well!?” 

Sarah smiled at him. “You'll need one.” She stared at Kane. “You both
will.” 

This time Blaze was dispatched to Sarah's cabin to bring back a bottle
she had in a locker. 

“It's at times like this I wish I smoked,” Kane remarked as they waited
for him to come back. 

Sarah stared at him. “Did you really mean what you said about us three,
Frank? Going back through the Corridor and making a new life 
somewhere?” 

For his answer, Kane strolled round and kissed her. A long kiss. 

“Does that answer you?” he asked. 

She looked into his steely blue eyes. “Yeah it does,” she muttered,
smiling at him. 

Blaze arrived back and once again acted as barman, happily pouring the
drinks. 

“Before I tell you about the clones there's something I have to do,”
Sarah told them. 

She went over to a wall rack in the Galley, picked a small sharp knife
and came back over. 

“Christ, we're going to be blood brothers!” Kane muttered. 

“Almost,” she said. 

Kane and Blaze were still wearing their black jumpsuits, of which they
had several sets. Right from the start however Sarah had insisted on 
wearing her dark blue Fleet Pilot's uniform complete with it broad 
yellow epaulettes. 

As they watched, she took the sharp knife and cut the insignia from her
left shoulder and then her right. She took them over to a trash can and 
threw them in. 

“What does that tell you?” she asked Kane. 

“That you've just resigned from the Fleet.” 

“Correct.” 

“Why do you have to do that?” Blaze asked, frowning. 

“Because she knows something we don't,” Kane answered. “Something about
the mission. Probably something Tyler told her before it even started.” 


She nodded. “Something I couldn't reveal because I had given my word as
a Fleet Pilot.” 

“You're no longer a Fleet Pilot,” said Kane. “So tell.” 

She sat back down, sipped her drink and stared at them. “The story Tyler
told you all during the briefing sessions about being cloned was a 
lie,” she told them. “None of you were ever cloned!” 

Kane was stunned. 

“Holy shit!!” said Blaze. 

This time Sarah didn't yell at him for cursing. 


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