Destiny

[jammi]

Screams erupted over all comms channels simultaneously as the last Rhienland Military pilots ship was burnt from the inside out by the deadly weaponry assailing it, purple pulses smashing through its armour plates like a stone being smashed through paper. The reactor exploded destroying the life pod and ending the screams.

Suddenly the bridge erupted into activity, with crew members diving for turret controls and the captain shifting the Eastbourne into evasive action. On the view screen I could see our attackers - three Wraths hung suspended in front of us.

The ships had an ethereal sense of wrongness radiating from them, as if they were not meant to exist on this plane of reality, as if they were something higher. I gazed at them in wonder; for these were the things my own and Rhienlands government feared so completely Das Wilden.

Yet they did not attack merely glided alongside, dipping and weaving around us. Then the turrets spoke with one fiery word, spitting death towards the aliens. I gasped, fearing the worst for the gods-among-men that floated alongside us. Each ship nimbly jinked out the way of each clumsy blast, infuriating the crew and evoking wonder and awe in me.

I felt their minds once more brushing against my own, this time only the fringes of their consciousness, rather than the white hot spike of their previous mental assault. I grasped the concepts of dreams, the blueprints of emotions a mere echo of their previous might.

I wondered though why were they sparing me? I had no doubt they could kill me through the mental agony they had inflicted on me but a moment ago any more pressure and my psyche could have cracked like an eggshell under a boot. Then there was the fact this was a uprotected civilian transport that was completely unable to harm them, yet they did not attack? Why? They could tear the ship in half in seconds.

Then there were sighs of relief as the Wilde ships peeled away and took off, disappearing into the orange clouds; returning to where-ever they had come from.

I watched them go. This was Destiny unfolding...

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