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The memories seemed to assault him now, like a movie he was forced to watch Another scene came, and he couldn’t turn away, couldn’t escape There was nowhere to run from his ownacross from him dissolved, and a room rose up around him

He knew the place well: the structure in Gibraltar

He stood in the control center, watching Kate and her partner race to save the primitive

Fools

Bleeding hearts

Why can’t they accept the inevitable? Their science and their morals blind them to the truth, the unmistakable reality: that this world, and the universe that surrounds it, has enough room for only one sentient race Resources are finite It must be us We are at war for our lives These scientists will be reave to the primitives, to maintain peace, to perpetuate a lie: that coexistence is possible In an environrowth, one species must triumph over the other

Hethe bombs

He stepped out of the command center and raced down the corridor

The turns went by in a flash, and he stood in a room with seven doors He activated his helmet display and waited Kate and her partner entered the ship

Dorian detonated the first bomb—the one buried out at sea The blast sent a tidal wave at the ship, sweeping it inland As the receding water dragged it back out to sea, Dorian activated the other bombs They would tear the ship, the Alpha Lander, apart

He walked through one of the seven doors, and he kneas in Antarctica, in his own ship Soon, I will free my people, and ill retake the universe

He walked past the control station and picked up a plasma rifle

He returned to the middle of the seven-door room

There was one escape route for the

Kate watched her partner dump the Neanderthal into a tube

“Ares betrayed us He is working against us”

Kate was silent

“Where is he?”

“What should we—”

An alarm lit up her helmet

Inco tidal wave

“He set off a bomb on the ocean floor—”

The shockwave hit the ship, throwing her against the bulkhead

Pain coursed through her body So to her

She was losing control The memories were too real now

She fought to focus, but everything went black

David poked his head between Kamau and Shaw, into the cockpit of the helicopter, and surveyed Valletta, the capital of Malta, below Valetta’s narrow harbor was packed with boats They covered al out of the harbor and into the sea A seely endless flow of people raced across the abandoned boats, using the a path to the shore Fro out of the harbor When they reached land, the four streah thea beeline for the Orchid District The first rays of the rising sun peeked out fro's domed top, and David held a hand up to shield his eyes

Why are they fleeing here? What's here that could save them?

A shudder ran through the helicopter, throwing David into the back seat