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I pressed my lips to hers and fed her every morsel of my deep undying love.
“We’re leaving,” Agatha said.
“Yes,” I said. “We’re leaving.”
I couldn’t imagine a happier thought.
Alone.
Out among the stars.
Free.
With Agatha.
Zzzzzzzzz!
I heard the noise but it took a moment to register.
It made no sense in this shuttlecraft.
It wasn’t until I heard the dull clink of metal snapping together that the truth of our situation came to fruition.
The hatch door was closing, but not fast enough.
Sunlight sparked off the white outer shell of the drone that activated the powerful magnets on its underside.
It had locked a cuff around an ankle and would carry its prisoner away.
But which one of us?
Agatha’s eyes bulged.
She scrabbled at the floor and clung to the small shuttlecraft’s protruding innards but the magnets were too strong and she lost her grip.
The cuff on her ankle snapped as it struck the drone’s underside and it took off with her.
It carried her out of my life, away from me forever.
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AGATHA
I thought I was going to fall.
Hell, I was falling.
Only my left foot was attached to the flimsy-looking drone.
I twisted and swung and feared the device would lose its grip on me and I would sail unimpeded to the ground below.
I screamed and flailed my arms.
“Oh my God!” I wailed. “Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!”
The drone’s high-pitched buzzing engines dropped an octave as it struggled to maintain its hold.
I was too heavy for it and we dropped at a terrifying speed.
