I gasped in exasperation. The odds were not good of us ever making our destination. Looking around at the rugged, hilly, rocky landscape I wondered how I found myself in this situation.
Tabitha reached out and placed her hand firmly on my arm. My heartbeat fell and I felt back in control.
I looked into her eyes.
“Will we do it?” I asked.
“We will babe.”
And that was that.
Over the next few days, the plans were finalized. The fate of perhaps hundreds of billions of people would rest on our shoulders.
The day we set out the whole base waved us off in their shabby clothes. Almost certainly more in hope than any real sense of confidence that we would succeed. There were no smiling faces. Just the strong aroma of the meat we had feasted on.
Over the rocky hills, we went following the same path from where we came. All the time keeping one eye on the sky and always fearful of what lay around the next corner. At least this time we were far better armed. We both had Grade A lasers. The best two weapons that the resistance had retrieved from a storage bunker just for us. A volley of shots would be enough to bring down any beast.
Still, they were only to be used as a last resort as it would reveal the presence of the Resistance in the world.
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