It was a beautiful ceremony.
Melissa had been in a good mood all day. About halfway through the dinner course, she realized that she hadn’t thought about the war or the impending mission to Abraxis or any of the other nerve-wracking things that had been on her mind for weeks. For once, she just felt like an ordinary woman living an ordinary life. Moments like that were precious and rare.
She loved her job, but there was no denying that this war had taken a toll on her. Though they weren’t nearly as severe or as frequent, she still had dreams about ziarogati. She worried about her mother, her father and her sister. And she wondered how she was supposed to live her life in the knowledge that most of human history had been scripted by the Overseers.
ziarogati.Today, all of that seemed dist
