Chapter 1
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She hears a silent, calming voice whispering to her. “Clark I am so, so sorry … but I must do that, the Ark isn’t safe for you anymore….” The voice is warm and full of love, but she can hear it cracking as the sentence came to the end. “You will be fine my love, you are going to a better place, you are going to the ground.” Then she feels a finger traveling lightly on her chin and cheeks, which is followed by a gentle kiss on her forehead. “May we meet again honey “ she lastly hears, before large metal doors are closed with a laud hiss. She is trapped in the dark, rounded place, strapped with several harnesses, without the possibility of movement.
Somewhere outside she can hear muffled conversation, and when she looks around, she can see different gauges and lit up screens, but without understanding their functions her eyes just glance from one to another, as fear was growing inside of her, partly because of unknown surroundings and party because of a sound of engines starting up.
The room begins to shake and wobble, as the noise intensified. And then a burst of speed glues her to chair, preventing her to move even muscle in her body. Through the small windows on the side of this strange moving room she can see first the blackness of space with little shining dots in the background, and then, as the angle changes, her eyes are staring at the mixture of blue and white, green and brown, as the Earth is becoming larger with every passing second. Inside of her different emotions were raging, from the fear of the unknown, to the excitement of discovering new things and maybe a little sadness too, because the gentle voice from before hadn’t come with her. She felt a bit safer and more comfortable as she had remembered the soothing voice and a caring kiss on her forehead. She was wondering to whom it could belong, when a violent jolt had knocked her out of thinking. She looked through the windows only to see flames engulfing her little ship.
She felt as though a hand have grasped her stomach and squeezed hard as the fear was creeping back inside of her. She noted that inside temperature had risen sharply and she was sweating heavily. She was wiping the sweat from her face and eyes, when entire ship was violently shaken again and Clarke started to scream in terror, but that didn’t last long as she suddenly felt terrible pain in the head, as a metal plate broke loose from the ceiling and made contact with her head. In front of her eyes, red dots started to appear and they were mixing with the fire storm outside….and then the darkness took her.
She had woken up still strapped in her seat, the pain in her head didn’t let up, as she started to realize that she is still alive, injured but alive. She lifted her hand up in an attempt to free herself from the seat, but she couldn’t, the pain was too much for her to handle. As she moved her head to look around her, she discovered that the surrounding area is totally destroyed. Through the holes she saw burnt and broken pieces of the ship and also broken trees laying around…again she tried to unbuckle herself, but this time the pain came shooting thru her body even harder than before and she just collapsed into painless oblivion.
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