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Much as they had fifteen years before, the first few notes that called out from the piano carried a blues feel, a telltale signature of keystrokes from memory that stirred Jahrae to know the long journey and separation was at last, over. What happened in those first few seconds and minutes thereafter would later blur [...]

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The questions kept coming from the audience for Jahrae and Ronnie; such was the audience’s fascination with the events of the last four months. There were questions about Arrhazon, questions concerning the children, questions on what llhaesa might know that made her a target, questions about the conduct of the US government, even fluff questions [...]

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President Alicia Ellenwood feigned unconsciousness whenever someone other than Sylvia Washington entered her room. While she tired of the skulduggery, their world’s future depended on a decisive end to the nonsense now put forth by the Acting President. Both felt it was not yet time to reveal Alicia’s recovery, though that time rapidly approached. Sylvia [...]

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Reaction to llhaesa’s presence was markedly different in some parts of the world, where unscrupulous and controlling leaders carefully released information shaped in such a way as to show llhaesa as the first of a coming wave of off world invaders. Far from showing her as someone advocating better for everyone on the world, the [...]

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The injury to President Ellenwood not only shocked Chief of Staff Marcia Paang, Acting President Green asked her to step aside in order that there be someone he trusted in the position. Now out of the loop of White House doings, Marcia silently seethed, that is she silently seethed when Barbara Millwood was not available [...]

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Llhaesa pushed the envelope on her keyboard play; there was no one around to watch and form an opinion – or so she thought. The amplifier was set higher than the usual level llhaesa employed, so she did not hear the door to her room open and John Flowers enter, with a guest. The two [...]

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Acting President Green was nothing if not pragmatic. Each morning he received a briefing on the condition of President Ellenwood, and a wave of anxiousness washed over him in the moments prior to each briefing. The anxiousness had complex roots, a combination of concern for her well-being combined with the conflicting notion of loving his [...]

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Jamila watched the Acting President speak with a trained eye, looking for clues that might be embedded in his speech, but not immediately obvious. With an advanced copy of the speech faxed to her, Jamila set out to find the key words. A phrase like ‘we accept as proof, absent contrary proof’ seemed to suggest [...]

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Acting President Green scheduled a fifteen-minute broadcast to speak to the American people. By extension, his words would reach out across the world, addressing the wild stories and rumours in circulation. There was no intent on Bill Green’s part to share everything known to the government, just enough information to mitigate the rampant rumours running [...]

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While the Salstons and company loaded into three separate vehicles for the drive to Manchester – Boston Regional Airport and a meeting with a helicopter, President Ellenwood met with her Chief of Staff, Director of Central Intelligence, the Attorney General, National Security Advisor, and Secretary of Defence. The gathering discussed the imminent arrival of the [...]

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