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Chapter Three: Three Dead Men
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Geralt goes into a state of panic. What?! NO! I just found you, you can’t leave me here like this, I need you.Wait, can I go with you, please! I’ve been searching for you for so long, I’ve just found you. Please, can I come with you both? By this time Geralt is on his knees, almost to tears, the thought of the person he loves leaving him choking him, making it hard to breathe.
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Katherine looked at Geralt a bit surprised, “Uh…relax, I’m sure we’ll cross paths again someday….” She was not sure how to handle situations like this.
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Geralt starts choking a tad, his heart being crushed. But, I want to come with you, please don’t leave me here. I’ve been with these people only so I could find you. And now you’re leaving, but I’m determined to come with you! Geralt gets back up onto his feet, the choking gone for now.
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Odysseus steps aroumd the corner. “They have nowhere to go. Everyone here, group meeting. Follow me.” Odysseus begins to lead everyone to a large conference room inside the ship.
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Katherine stepped back a bit shocked at his words, “I am sure you are happy with this group, even without me in it. Surely you don’t have such strong feelings for me, you and Ms. Asphodel seemed pretty close…” Katherine looked away a bit nervous
Katherine shook her head, “And why is that?” She questioned Ody.
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“I’ll explain. Come with me. I don’t even quite understand what is going on yet myself, but SAL is patching a video link into the conference room. The OGA have made a big play, and I received billions of distress signals from 573 worlds. Something bad is happening.” Odysseus opens the door, and a large table with a holographic projector in the center reads ‘Standby’.
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Apollo aimed the cruiser with everyone onboard towards Yesthermn-3. “I own Andaluza’s abandoned military outpost on the planet. We can hide out there, nobody ever visits there.”
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Geralt starts sweating, not able to comprehend that the woman he loves is trying to push him away. He hears Odysseus and just ignores him. I don’t remember why I don’t want to stay with this group, but for whatever reason I know it’s a good one. Geralt walks up and takes Katherine’s hands in his, his tail then coming up and lying on both pairs of hands. You must be Katherine right now. You and Faye, two sides of the same coin. He looks back at Faye. Rose over there, her and I have nothing between us. But Katherine, I care oh so deeply for you and your other half. Geralt slightly squeezes Katherine’s hands and whispers, just loud enough for her to hear. No one except Faye with her exceptional hearing hears his next few words. I love both of you. A single tear rolls down Geralt’s face as his emotions start to get to him again, choking him up once more.
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Apollo rolls his eyes. [Not only does he want money but he’s a big baby. Well, I shouldn’t think like this, I’ve never loved anyone before. Honestly, Jack is the closest I have had to a lover. Ew. Wait, no, we’re best friends, that’s impossible. Katherine is what standards would call ‘attractive’ but she is by far the hardest worker in the group. Ew, why am I even thinking?] Apollo then walks up to the control board and begins tapping on the planet surface. “Odysseus, can you calibrate this so that it displays hostile spacecraft instead of simple targets? The OGA ships are rather…biased towards themselves.”
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Odysseus pulls up the live video feed. “This is the best I have…” As he glances at the video and flips through various camera angles, the depiction is horrific. The land is scarred on the planet, one of the 573 being invaded, and the building and skyscrapers are in shambles. Corpses lay on the ground, and a strange purple column of light can be seen flowing away from the planet towards a large sphere suspended above one of the poles, as the beam of light seems to reach all the way down into a deep dark abyss. Around the light column, the planet has scars forming and the soil takes on a gray and black, ash-like hue, slowly inching out from the epicenter.
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Katherine opened and closed her mouth unsure of what to say. “I….uh…”
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Geralt keeps his hands and tail on hers, looking into her eyes. Everything he has gone through since he met up with Odysseus on earth has all lead to this moment, him finally finding Rose/Katherine. This is what he has been working towards, not money as the Jack and Apollo thought, but love, that foolish idea that drives the sanest of people mad and the strongest weak. Love, that emotion that can power a man to do the most extraordinary or dastardly of deeds.
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Malice carefully takes Geralt’s hand off of Katherine’s “I’m sorry to say this but she no interest in relationships at the moment and you’re just being a hindrance right now so just let her go. She wants to leave so let her leave if you care so much about her, or else it jut seems that you’re selfish just wanting her for yourself and not thinking about what she wants. Let her be happy and free”
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Geralt looks at Malice, the owner of the Daomer. All I want right now is to go with you both, I want to be wherever y’all are. Geralt says all of this doing his best to not let them hear how choked up he is right now.
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Katherine just stood quiet, she was confused but now she didn’t even know what to do… She shook her head and focused on Apollo and Odysseus .
She cleared her throat a bit, “S-so, what is going on?”
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