The Lightyears Series - Episode 11 - The Memories

Spacetastic Mysteries

“I have been better than you two, it seems. I have not been captured while I have been here. I am glad to see you are both in disguise. They will come after you if they know it is you.” She looked to Jake. “They will kill you, but,“ she persisted, glancing over at me, “they want her to fulfill tradition.”

“Fulfill tradition,” Jake repeated.

She nodded. “If you marry one of their sons and have children with him, and he dies, tradition states you are to marry the next brother. They want her to marry their son. They are going to force it. They don’t want their grandchildren to be raised by anyone not of their family.”

I rolled my eyes. “I will not have my children raised by them…nor will I marry Philippe. Josh was the sane one in that family.”

“They have their spies all around you. You need to be careful because these spies are giving them intel on you…and they have killed the people who have not returned by the deadline.”

“What do you know about this disease? Have you found any evidence that it has originated from here?”

“You are going to want to talk to Hunter Mayfield. He is at the University and is one of us. I have set up a meet for you and him tomorrow morning at 0900 hours. I will send the location and the codeword to your QuanPad.”

“I appreciate that. Has he been researching it for awhile? Something in my gut wants to test the soil on this planet, but I don't know.”

“I’d trust your gut,” she agreed, catching my eye. “I don’t know how it is possible to transmit it through the soil from one planet to another, but go ahead. It would be a great use of your time while Jake and I get re-acquainted. He has always had a thing for me. Remember when we…behind the mountains five years ago.”

I raised my eyebrows, giving Jake an amused look. “Really now?”

Jake shook his head and insisted, “I did not knowingly sleep or kiss anyone while I was here. If something happened between you and me, Kasia, I was either out of it or it was non-consensual.”

“You are telling me that you don’t remember our relationship, our son, that you said you loved me…and that I was the only one you ever loved?”

“I would never willingly do that to Dani.”

“Kasia! Tell him the truth.”

She wrinkled her nose. “Okay, okay, I was trying to see how loyal you are to her. We have never been together nor do we have a son.”

Jake seemed relieved, then wondered, “Are you trying to find out if I am loyal because you are her friend or because you are interested in breaking us up?”

“She is trying to find out how you are going to handle it if Philippe starts throwing those accusations around. We need to know any indiscretions they can bring up on you. Me? I don’t care and don’t want to know. That is none of my business, but Philippe—he is going to be cruel and vicious like his father—and is going to make up information to discredit you.”

“We are in disguise. We are safe from all that.”

“These people have their ways…we just have to make sure we are ready for anything.”