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allure of it,
the reason she knew her answer long before she actually thought through the pros
and cons. This might be her death, but she was going to die someday anyway.
That was just a fact of life which had to be accepted.
     
    And her whole life, she had known where she was going.
Perhaps it was time to follow in her mother’s footsteps and embrace the
mystery.
     
    “Okay,” she agreed. The decision paid for itself right then
and there, just watching the wave of relief wash the stress from his face.
Actually, in that instant, she thought he was quite handsome. Perhaps not the
type of man she normally found attractive, but perhaps his stiffness could be
excused.
     
    Hell, look at me too, she thought. I’m not acting
like myself right now, either.
     
    They stood there in silence for a moment before she broke
it, preventing any awkwardness or second thoughts from coming between them.
“So, what do we do, now? Do I…go back with you now?”
     
    Eban shook his head, leaving her relieved and disappointed.
On the one hand, she wanted the time to prepare but on the other, she really
didn’t want to have second thoughts. Never before had she broken a promise but
now she was just as scared that he would change his mind, too. But all he said
was, “The pod is calibrated only for my needs currently. And do you not have
any loose ends to tie up? I would understand that if you did not live in such a
place, but all this belongs to you.”
     
    Saffron just shook her head in response. She had no
boyfriend, her parents were both dead by now –her mother of cancer, and her
father by his own hand- and the neighbors treated her like…an alien.
     
    Smiling a little now, she said, “I’m good whenever you come
back.”
     
    “I will be as swift as I can,” he promised, and then turned
to his craft. “You may wish to stand slightly back. Perhaps several hills over,
actually. The thrust is quite powerful and it would be a shame to hurt you.”
     
    Something lilted tenderly in the back of his voice, and she
wasted no time in doing what he said. From her perch in a ditch between gentle
hills, she watched as Eban climbed back into the pod. The ceiling panel slid
back into place, sealing so firmly that she couldn’t remember where it had been
only a second later. Then, it rose up with a whir and a blast of flame that
made her turn her face away even from such a distance.
     
    In the end, she missed the actual takeoff because while her
face was turned away, the ground heaved and knocked her over again. By the time
she brought her dizzy head back up again, there was nothing but a plume of
smoke trailing up high into the sky to remind her of what used to be here.
     
    Well, that and the gigantic hole in the ground.
     
    Shaking her head, she held her nose and breathed out hard to
unpop her ringing ears. She sat there on the ground for nearly ten minutes, just
mulling over the events, before pushing herself to her feet. Clenching her
fists around her determination, she nodded and started to head inside. There
were some things that she did need to take care of, just to make her
disappearance easy on those who were going to be slightly affected by it.
     
    For once, she was glad at how far away she was from her
neighbors. While it saddened her that they would never be close enough to her
to realize that she was nothing at all like the stuck-up celebrity millionaire
the newspapers made her out to be, she was glad that none of them would come
out to investigate the strange sights and sounds.
     
    They might wonder, because there was no hiding the streak of
fire that Eban’s ship left as it came and went, and the plume of smoke was
spreading out before dissipating, but they wouldn’t come.
     
    Returning inside her house, she shut the door, cracked her
knuckles, and set down to work.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter Four
     
    When she woke the next morning after a long night of writing
down a will that parceled out her