I still cannot believe it.

  What Magnus did a cycle ago… I still CANNOT believe it.

  Until the day-cycle of his ‘oath-breaking’, I always knew Magnus to be so calm… So collected… So controlling of his emotional level.

  Was I wrong to believe in such things???

  Ugh… I do not know.

  For over a cycle my mind and heart have been riddled with questions… UNANSWERED QUESTIONS.

  Why did Magnus do everything that he did?

  Why did he break his oath as a Galactic Decider… AS OUR COMMANDING-LEADER???

  Why did he leave us?

  Why did he leave me?

  Ugh… By the High-Elders… I do not know why it all happened the way that it did.

  Perhaps I never shall… But by the thracking Emperor, I wish that I did.

  Oh, the things that I would do to know the truth… Magnus’s Truth.

  _

  “BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! INCOMING MESSAGE! INCOMING MESSAGE!!!” sounded off Anora’s Personal Holo-Comm, breaking her out of her inner-meditation/self-reflection cycle.

  Hovering cross-legged a few feet above her bed via usage of her gravitational abilities, Anora opened her eyes and floated on over to her Holo-Com which was located on the other side of the room.

  “A holo from the emperor?” Anora thought to herself. “Hm. I wonder what it could be about?”

  Activating her Holo-Comm, Anora pressed her right index finger on the icon on the Holo-Screen that opened the Holo-Message.

  Milli-cycles later… Projecting out of the Holo-Com’s Holo-Screen was a life-sized holographic projection of Emperor Voltair standing right in the center of Anora’s Private Chamber.

  Placing her currently bare feet back on the ground, Anora backed away from the life-sized holo of the emperor in surprise.

  “Galactic Decider Anora… I come to you bearing GRAND news,” Emperor Voltair said with a pleased, seedy smirk on his face. “THE LOCATION OF THE OATH-BREAKER HAS FINALLY BEEN DISCOVERED!!!”

  “No,” Anora said aloud in a whispery voice as Emperor Voltair’s hologram sneered rather devilishly.

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  “At long last… The accursed Oath-Breaker shall finally pay for his traitorous and murderous crimes against the Voltairan Empire, the Voltairan Home World, and the Voltairan People!” Voltair thundered. “His CURRENT location is on the planet of ‘Rannuk’, which is located on the southern edge of the Galactic Sector. FIND HIM! I ORDER YOU AND YOUR ‘SIBLINGS’ TO FIND HIM AND APPREHEND HIM!!!”

  Anora remained silent, and motionless, as Emperor Voltair continued, “And if he does not comply with your apprehension then… Which I hope he does NOT, heh, heh… Decider Anora, I want you and ONLY YOU to extinguish his life-force.”

  Anora kept her lips sealed as Emperor Voltair’s holo-message concluded, “Report back to me once you have gone to Rannuk and dealt with the Oath-Breaker. Until then, I bid thee grand tidings… FOR NOW.”

  The holo-message then ended, leaving Anora behind to let out a long withheld, deep breath.

  _

  No… NO!!!

  I shall not do it. I CANNOT do it!

  Magnus was my friend… MY COMMANDING-LEADER.

  I fought for him.

  I cared for him.

  I…

  _

  “BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! INCOMING MESSAGE! INCOMING MESSAGE!” the Holo-Comm sounded off again, gaining Anora’s immediate attention once more.

  Gulping a second time, Anora creeped back on over to the Holo-Comm to see that she had yet another holo-message, but this time it was not from the emperor.

  “BRAKKO???” Anora said in a surprised tone after seeing the new incoming Holo-Message was from her current ‘Commanding-Leader’.

  Scrunching her brow, Anora activated the holo-message and stepped a few feet back, allowing a life-size holo of Braako to emerge from the Holo-Comm’s Holo-Screen.

  “Grand greetings, Sister,” an angry looking Braako said through gritted teeth. “I trust you have received the most recent holo-message from the gracious grand emperor???”

  “Yes,” Anora replied weakly.

  “YOUR PRESENCE IS REQUESTED… Along with the others outside of the Grand Galactic Deciding Temple in no less than TEN MINUTE-CYCLES. The eternally Grand and Gracious Emperor has ordered us all to go to planet Rannuk to hunt down and make that traitorous oath-breaking THRACK former ‘kinsman’ of ours to pay for his HEINOUS crimes against our people, our world, ourselves, and our merciful Lord. See you soon… DECIDER.”

  Braako’s Holo then faded away back into the Holo-Comm’s Holo-Screen, leaving Anora behind to stand all alone in her Private Chamber with a very vexed expression on her angelic-like face.