Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #15 June 2015 | Page 22

They made the two remaining humans unconscious
and put them in a station ship with its course set to
your planet. We noticed that another human called
Liam was also in one of the hibernation cocoons. But
we gathered from the information contained in your
minds that it was his time to return home anyway. So
we left him where he was. Did we assume and act
correctly?”

somewhere else, apart from your planet, nothing will
happen to you. Understand though, that we won’t be
able to protect you in case you return to Earth. Your
planet is in a great diplomatic and political mess due
to all agreements your government made with different alien factions.”

“Yes.” Hiba answered with a sigh of relief. “Can you
please do us a last favour and check if our colleague
Wu is all right?”

“Live in peace now, human woman.” The light orb
vanished.

The light orb showed images on the infirmary’s wall
of Wu meeting Chun again.
“I suppose they are OK where they are?” Hiba asked.
“Yes.” The orb said.
“Will you now protect this station so that the Nordics
stop interfering with us?”
“The Nordics won’t be happy, but we assure you that
from now on they will leave you alone. We, from the
Council of Five, agreed to give you also protection
as long as you are in space so if one day you move

“I understand.” Hiba said.

The woman went to examine the two men. She took
a wake up shot and used it on them. While the others
were slowly awakening Mark asked her: “How do you
feel after everything that happened?”
“Well...” She said frowning. “I feel that even if the
conflict with the Nordics ended here at the station this
situation is far from being solved on Earth. But this
battle won’t be mine to fight.”
“When you look at the stars from here they seem so
peaceful. Don’t they?” Mark said with an ironic smile.
Hiba smiled too. “Yeah. The calm lakes are the deeper
ones.”

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