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here? Arcoh! You are a man living one thousand years in the past! This future you want, maybe it could have existed on Mother Earth, but not here, not in this system. Everyone in Eden will devour you!"
                  "How dare you speak to His Grace in such a manner!"
                  "Ivan, holster that sidearm and calm down. I would like to offer Mr. King the burden of choice."
                  Ivan jabbed his foot into Mickey's leg and he dropped to his knees. Mickey groaned in agony as Ivan drew his sidearm, pressing the cold barrel against the back of Mickey's head.
                  "When I get my hands on you I will—"
     
                  "Enough! I offer you one chance to spare your friend's life." Arcoh had this kind of gesture he performed when he was feeling anxious. He would massage his ring finger of his left hand with the thumb and middle finger of his right hand, and he would grin maniacally as he did it. From that moment on, he created flames of hatred that would burn forever in my heart.
                  "We orbit around a primary world on this moon. The remainder of your people have fled to the hostile surface of the planet your race holds so dear, Rayden . I know that you know where they are licking their wounds."
                  "You expect me to give up my own people? You really are as stupid as you look." When I said this, Ivan responded by pulling the hammer back on his sidearm, and pushing Mickey's face to the ground.
                  "MICKEY!"
                  "Look at me, Collin! LOOK AT ME! He will kill him! Tell me where they are! Now choose! CHOOSE! Me or them! ME? OR THEM?" I looked over to Mickey, and I trembled in fear as Arcoh pounded his chest demanding an answer from me.
                  "Collin?" Mickey inquired.
                  "I can't, Mickey. I just can't."
                  "I know, Collin, I know. It's okay, it's okay, my friend."
                  "I CHOOSE THEM!"
                  Arcoh walked up to Mickey and waved Ivan aside. Mickey struggled to talk as Arcoh drew his diamond-tipped sword to my best friend's throat.
                  "Never give up hope, it is all you have now, brother."
                  Before I even had a chance to say goodbye the blade tore his skin, and his blood sprayed across my face. I closed my eyes. I couldn't look, I felt so weak, so helpless, scared, and angry. Arcoh then walked up to me as he whipped his sword, freeing the diamond-edged blade of the blood belonging to my best friend.
                  "The freedom of choice comes with great consequence, Mr. King."
                  "Just do it. I want all to end."
                  But he just smiled, and even began to laugh, as he holstered his sword and bent down to me.
                  "Why have you done this? You have taken everything! I have nothing left to live for!"
                  "You know nothing of life, Collin! You have everything to live for. It is only when a man loses everything below him that he can find the courage to discover all that can lie above him."
                  "You're not going to kill me?"
                  Ivan then lifted me to my feet, and I stared directly into Arcoh's eyes, as he spoke his twisted words of reason.
                  "Kill you? How could I kill you when there is so much left for you to witness?"
     
                  In my attempt to pounce at Arcoh I passed out from the pain. My sight faded from me when I noticed the life had already fled away from Mickey's eyes. There was something else there, in the sky above us, where Rayden One was situated before it fell to earth.
                  It was a ship, a single massive ship that was raining down hell onto the surface below.