rocketrider
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- Apr 3, 2001
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The stars danced magnificently under the night time sky. They brought back the fond memories of my life when I was a small child still living on Earth. Even after twenty eight years of time, and after traveling a distance of over one hundred fifty light years from Earth, I still believed that a star filled night sky was the most inspiring and beautiful sight to behold.
To me, such a sight represented total peace and total fulfillment, but the news of an Interstellar War was a reality of total destruction and mass death. How sad it seemed to me, the only female Historian in my family, that the greatest success Humans had achieved, during their two thousand year history of Space Exploration, was gaining more space in which to kill each other.
Once again, the soldiers would march off to war, because once again, the time for battle had come. But worst of all, entire families would be torn apart and grieve over the loss of loved ones.
As I looked out into the star filled night sky, I realized that tonight might well be my last night of peace on this or any other planet. My name is Amilleesa Davieniott Vaerronos, and tomorrow, I will become a soldier.
"Amilleesa," I heard my father's voice call out to me. "It's very late. Please, you must come in now."
I turned and looked down the hill, located about fifty feet from the back of our house, and saw my father's large frame silouetted by the night lights shining through the opened back door.
"Be there in while," I called back.
"You have to get up early, you know."
Give me credit, I thought to myself. I know better than you what I need to do.
"I said, I'll be there in a while." I answered again.
There was no response as he closed the door behind him.
I hated being impatient with him, but I was a grown woman quite capable of making my own damned decisions, and I wanted this moment of peace and solitude to last a little longer.
To me, such a sight represented total peace and total fulfillment, but the news of an Interstellar War was a reality of total destruction and mass death. How sad it seemed to me, the only female Historian in my family, that the greatest success Humans had achieved, during their two thousand year history of Space Exploration, was gaining more space in which to kill each other.
Once again, the soldiers would march off to war, because once again, the time for battle had come. But worst of all, entire families would be torn apart and grieve over the loss of loved ones.
As I looked out into the star filled night sky, I realized that tonight might well be my last night of peace on this or any other planet. My name is Amilleesa Davieniott Vaerronos, and tomorrow, I will become a soldier.
"Amilleesa," I heard my father's voice call out to me. "It's very late. Please, you must come in now."
I turned and looked down the hill, located about fifty feet from the back of our house, and saw my father's large frame silouetted by the night lights shining through the opened back door.
"Be there in while," I called back.
"You have to get up early, you know."
Give me credit, I thought to myself. I know better than you what I need to do.
"I said, I'll be there in a while." I answered again.
There was no response as he closed the door behind him.
I hated being impatient with him, but I was a grown woman quite capable of making my own damned decisions, and I wanted this moment of peace and solitude to last a little longer.