All of Timothy’s former confidence and exuberance returned in the coming days. Finally, he would be back on his homeworld and there was a glorious battle to look forward to. That part though increasingly worried him. Even as he drilled his loyal troops in the shuttle area, negative thoughts and those bordering on chaos kept entering his mind.
Would he be able to watch the obliteration of his world if commanded?
If the Emperor was truly all powerful surely he could snap his fingers and put the enemy out of existence?
He knew such thoughts were heresy. But still they came.
Instead he tried to think of the positives. Of seeing his father and Audrey again.
He patiently waited till the day came that he could set his wheels on Uisneach once more. And he knew that it had arrived when the summons to the bridge came.
He drove out onto the bridge in full military regalia with all his medals proudly strapped to his chest.
But then he stopped his wheelchair stunned, his mouth ajar at what he saw in front of him.
It was Uisneach and yet it wasn’t. He recognized the two megacities protruding from the planet but other things were so different. He had expected to see a barren, poisoned world but there were lush forests, grasslands and agricultural fields covering the planet with ostensibly human settlements dotted throughout. The sea was a deep blue hinting at abundant marine life.
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