Home Planet: Apocalypse (Part 2) (21 page)

“Look, over there,” I said to Laetitia.

“That is Koko Crater, Mr. Luker. It is around half a mile in diameter and a thousand feet high.”

It wasn’t the crater itself, though, but what filled its interior. Domes. Five huge geodesic domes made up of translucent hexagons.

“I think we’ve just found civilization. Laetitia, I guess we’d better go introduce ourselves.”

She nodded and got up to reprogram our descent.

Somewhere inside me, the fires of hope had reignited. The truth was what drove my mind, but the chance of a reunion with Mom and Nikki drove my heart. Even if they were a sentient copy of the living breathing article, seeing them again would mean more to me than all the truth in the world.

Five hundred and eighteen years after Juliet was snatched away, her legacy may have lived on. The
Forever World
offered me something worth living for, too. Now I had to find that world and return to the Earth that once was.

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TO BE CONTINUED IN

HOME PLANET, PART III: ARCADIA

Release date: February 13
th
, 2016

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