{"id":10538,"date":"2016-05-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=10538"},"modified":"2016-05-03T13:51:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T19:51:34","slug":"captives-in-obscurity-excerpt-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/captives-in-obscurity-excerpt-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Captives in Obscurity \u2014 excerpt 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHow do I figure into all of this?\u201d Reva asked, her voice trembling. \u201cWhat do you want from me?\u201d<\/p>\n

Gulchina looked her squarely in the eye. \u201cI want you to take us there, Reva. I want you to be a mother to my men. To them, I may well be a god, but I am not immortal. And my dream will take generations to be realized.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYour dream?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo found a new nation: a people who live beyond the settled stars. With me as their god and you as their mother, we will raise up a free nation beyond the reach of any empire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reva didn\u2019t know what to say. Her hands still trembled, even though her fear now seemed unfounded. She\u2019d known for a long time that Gulchina had been grooming her for something, but to become the mother of a nation? It sounded insane.<\/p>\n

Or was it? Gulchina was right about one thing at least: Reva was a stranger and a vagabond. Ever since she had stepped out of that cryotank, she had struggled to find a place for herself in this strange, lonely universe. To become the mother of a nation\u2014it sounded crazy, but if there was even a chance\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are an orphan child of the Outworlds,\u201d said Gulchina, breaking the pensive silence. \u201cYou have absolutely nothing to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat difference does that make?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause it frees you to pursue that which you truly desire. Tell me, is there anything you want more than a new family and a home? A place where you fully belong?\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019s right<\/em>, Reva realized. I want that more than anything.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d she said. \u201cThe things I\u2019ve seen you do, I\u2026 I don\u2019t know if I could do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gulchina tapped her tablet and returned to her chair. The holographic projector switched off, and the lights faded back on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been over this before, Reva. Corporal Sarnai\u2019s execution was unfortunate, but necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut making it into a spectacle\u2014don\u2019t you think that was a little excessive?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNations can only be born in blood, Reva. And if I am cruel, it is because the stars themselves are cruel. On a starship such as ours, every duty is of critical importance. A failure at any point could lead to catastrophe, and in the outer reaches of space, there is no one who will come to our rescue. And so I must maintain discipline at all costs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut still\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you think I took pleasure in his death?\u201d Gulchina asked. \u201cDo you think I enjoyed watching his corpse drift out into the empty void? There may have been an element of spectacle to the execution, but I assure you, Reva, my tears were real.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were?\u201d<\/p>\n

Gulchina leaned forward and put a hand on Reva\u2019s knee. At her touch, Reva\u2019s legs went weak, and her hands stopped trembling.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, Reva. I love my men\u2014all of them. That is why I push them so hard. I want them to become something greater than any of them could be apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd what about me?\u201d Reva asked, her voice barely louder than a whisper.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that you are capable of far more than you realize. When I first took you onto this ship, I could see it in your eyes. You may not fully believe in yourself, Reva, but I do. And I am ready to share all that I have with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

She means it<\/em>, Reva realized. She really does.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The deadliest pirates in the galaxy have stolen the technology that will transform it. Now, on the edge of known space, they are poised to start an empire of their own.<\/p>\n

Isaac and Reva are running out of time. Neither of them knows the extent of Gulchina’s plans, or whether the madwoman will keep them both alive after she achieves them.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHow do I figure into all of this?\u201d Reva asked, her voice trembling. \u201cWhat do you want from me?\u201d Gulchina looked her squarely in the eye. \u201cI want you to take us there, Reva. I want you to be a mother to my men. To them, I may well be a god, but I am… Continue reading Captives in Obscurity \u2014 excerpt 9<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[964,855],"tags":[474],"class_list":["post-10538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssf-v","category-ssf","tag-excerpts","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2JY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10560,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions\/10560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}