Replaced by His First Love
The Moon Base erupted in a silent, silver-gray fireball behind us.
We weren't flying anymore. We were falling.
Hurtling through the atmospheric ceiling, the Citadel turned into a meteor of red-hot basalt and weeping mercury.
I clutched Leo to my chest, my right hand holding him, my left arm a shattered ruin of stone.
"Mommy..." Leo whispered, his stuffy voice back, small and fragile. "Is the heaven gone?"
"It's gone, baby," I murmured, my heart thudding a final, syncopated rhythm.
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