Earth Flight
“I was scared to death, not just of this cure failing, but also of it succeeding. If it worked, I’d have to live the rest of my life with an artificial web controlling my immune system.All my life, I’d hated what fate had done to me, and desperately wanted two things. To be able to travel to the stars, and to prove I was as human as the norms. Society was finally accepting the Handicapped as being truly human rather than throwbacks, but after this operation I wouldn’t be either norm or Handicapp...ed. I’d have the stars I always wanted, but would I really be human?I didn’t want to go through with this operation, but I had to. There was too much at stake for me to refuse, and anyway I quite literally had no choice. If I changed my mind, said I wouldn’t go through with this …General Torrek would be back in command of the Alien Contact programme soon. He’d cared deeply for my grandmother. I was her Honour Child, born to carry her name, and he cared about me too. He’d never use Alien Contact emergency powers to order the doctors to do the operation without my consent, he’d resign from his post as commanding officer instead, but then Colonel Stone would have to do it and find it hard to live with herself afterwards.I didn’t want to put either of them through that, so I had to survive the torture of the waiting hours and go through this voluntarily.MoreLess
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