Sabotaged Minds
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Alex hated not knowing who the alien was. Today she'd grown afraid of being in her own ship, afraid of being alone and afraid of being with someone else. She was afraid she'd do something wrong or be framed and get stranded for dead in space, possibly even voted out by people she trusted. She was afraid one of those people would die. She was afraid that a person she thought she'd known would turn into the akulu, meaning they'd been killed and unmourned a long time ago–replaced by a betrayal-attempting villain.
She was scared of her growing paranoia, making her wary around everyone and never relaxed with a lowered guard. But she was even more scared by the fact that she was wasting the last few times she'd have with those who were innocent. If Quinn, for example, wasn't it, Alex wouldn't have enjoyed the remainder of their lives they still had together, instead being driven into fear and avoiding her.
It was all terrifying. And everything Alex was going through, she knew everyone was.
That was why she hated the akulu on the Advancer.
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- Part 1 of Sabotaged Minds
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(THIS STORY SPOILS PART 1 OF THE SERIES!)
Katz had said something similar, too, earlier. Something about no chance for Ekun to make the moral choice to abandon the mission, because he would've made the choice already if he was going to.
"Monsters like that won't change."
I can't change. I'll always have this guilt and I'll always be a killer. I have no choice but to see every human here get murdered by me, Ekun, or each other.
Their species will never be able to survive once we succeed. They'll never get off Earth and Earth will never survive if they stay.
And if nothing changes, if we're stuck like how we are now, I'll never be just like Ekun. I'll never be able to get him to be himself again.
Monsters won't change.
Jasldi knew the goal of the mission was basically driving the planet full of alien species extinct, but really, what kind of mission was that? Why did Ekun follow it? What kind of reality was this where Jasldi and Ekun couldn't change, where they were stuck as what the humans said were monsters?
Was there any way they could change?
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- Part 2 of Sabotaged Minds