Malcom Orion

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LOOKING OUT OF A SMALL WINDOW in the back of the military transport, Macolm Orion could just make out the flickering light of Earth, three months and 140 million miles behind him. On most of his missions, Malcolm chose to focus on what was out front, but this time, he couldn’t help but look back. He had grown accustomed to leaving Rayla and the kids when duty called, and there was always a chance that he wouldn’t return. That’s the life he had signed up for, first as a Navy SEAL and then as an astronaut with NASA. But the mission bringing him to Mars? Everyone involved, including Malcolm, knew it was probably a oneway trip. Duni and Niran had taken their father’s departure hard. They thought he was heading to Europa, an eight-year deployment, which had, until recently, been his assignment. But then, a geologic survey team found the alien spacecraft on Mars, and everything changed. How do you explain to a 7 and 10-year-old that instead of flying to one of Jupiter’s moons, you’re going to step into a bubble of alien technology and see where it takes you? No one could know that, though, not even Rayla. But she had always been able to read his eyes and his heart; she knew that this trip was different, that this time she and the kids were going to have to learn to live in a world without him...

 

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