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Lincoln has its scars also

My fingerprints scorched across its throat

And unwilling to close to a distance where nuclear strike < mutual destruction > is an option,

it launches its Warlock fighters instead Hounds set on the fox

To harry and tear until I aht back

And then Lincoln will close, as will the curtains on this lightless stage

I see pilots insideto their cockpits

Diving into the darkness through their launch tubes, between us and the enemy

Photographs of sweethearts pressed to sweat-slick skin

There is no answer out there

Only delay

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The answer is within h commtechs and marines and tactical staffers and co and old and hurt and angry and all of them, all of them, so very, very afraid

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the mirrors of her eyes

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It is the only path that can save them

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And I am the only one who can help the, do you copy?

Torrence, D, Gen: Barker, go

Barker, L, Maj: General, we’re getting sos off the AIDAN core

Torrence, D, Gen: Odd? Jesus wept, we’re in thearithive a shit about persona logarithrid is active, thrusters are online Anything else is a proble!

Barker, L, Maj: General, I don’t--

Torrence, D, Gen: Keep it running!

The answer is not without It is within

The soundless explosions outside me

Little lives snuffed out in a roolance

The rest ofbetween Alexander and Hypatia

A strand of spider silk Fragile as spun sugar Bearing the weight of the entire fleet