“You are not surprised that I know who you are,” Col. Vehe said. It was a statement, not a question.“Of course we are not,” Arran replied.“What self-respecting leader would invite others into their home and not investigate who they were? We fully expected to be exposed as soon as we were captured so we didn’t intend to hide anything in the first place.”“Oh, is that why you refused to answer my interrogator?” Col. Vehe asked with slanted eyes.Smiling, Arran replied, “We were just playing a little game is all - a game you initiated. No hard feelings, ok?”Towards the end of his words, Arran turned to Poltergeist and smiled in apology.Arran's actions and words were very casual - and quite frankly flippant. It was like he couldn’t recognize the position he was in or the severity of who he stood in front of. This attitude irked the colonel’s aide, who bristled with anger. He was of a mind to tell Arran off for his rudeness before his superior but the discipline instilled by the milita

The colonel’s depiction of Azalea and Jeremiah is one of a cruel and unforgiving couple with no regard for human life at all. It painted a twisted version of the otherwise noble and dignified royals they were thought of as back at the Etherium.Arran was a little disturbed by this image but Pamela and Beatrice felt it was to be expected. The gap between higher realm beings and lower realm beings was so significant that comparing them was like comparing a dragon to a stinking mud trotter. It wasn’t a surprise that high nobles in the upper realm would not put human life from lower realms in the same regard.Still, the fact remained that a significant clue about Azalea and Jeremiah had shown up here, one that might lead to the discovery of their true purpose on this planet. Beatrice and the others would not let this go at all.As Arran was still reeling from the gruesome light in which his parents were shed, Beatrice impatiently spoke to Col. Vehe and asked, “What were you escorting that

A discussion of profound importance was underway — the dead silent night bearing witness as two parties with no prior connection to each other tried to unravel a tangled mystery.Col. Vehe replied to Arran’s question. “I believe that I’m as clueless as everyone else about what is happening around us. I’ve had renowned scientists and scholars investigate the abnormalities for a long time now to understand these phenomena, only to come up mute. The same goes for every other person out there trying to find answers.”“Of course, there are many who have tried explaining all of this with various theories, yet none of these theories have any feasible evidence backing them, thus nobody can agree on which view is right. But if there is one thing the entire scientific community agrees on is that we do not know anything about any of this and are still pretty much in the dark.”The colonel’s reply was just as Arran and the others expected. It was no surprise that nobody on earth could come up wit

The night was restless. Many people around the world were deprived of sleep as a secret letter possessing explosive information reached them.In a certain secret room, many people were gathered around a table holding a conference to discuss a shocking piece of news that had reached them that night.These people, prior to the apocalypse, were the previous world leaders of the most powerful nations on Earth. Presidents, prime ministers and dictators alike were gathered in a secure location after the apocalypse on Earth from which they monitored and tried to stabilize the situation on Earth.Many people, with the advent of the apocalypse, thought that civilization, following the displacement of humans across national borders, thus leading to chaos and anarchy, with only a few settlements springing up, maintaining any semblance of an organized society. But unknown to these anarchists, their world leaders were now hobbled in a space station outside Earth’s atmosphere where they oversaw the

“I can’t believe there are so many humans hiding up here,” Joyner said to himself. “And judging from the looks of things, they are all important leaders of the human race. This Rekindle program — what an interesting project!” Having discovered the remnants of humanity's political power hidden away in space, Joyner was still slightly surprised. He marveled at the intelligence of humanity's upper echelons coming up with a contingency to save themselves for a moment before promptly proceeding to break into the Ark’s network and accessing all the information located in its database. In just a few seconds, Joyner already knew everything there was to know about the Sun Ark and humanity's Rekindle project. He also discovered why they hadn’t picked up on the space station's existence when they had first drives on Earth. As it turned out, the Sun Ark operated on a closed network system that was completely shutoff and isolated from the rest of the internet. It was virtually impossible to dis