LWDD-2

==Chapter 2 Lest we drown in the darkness...==
by Cannonshop
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2769 - Golden Lake Internment Area - Kowloon, Rim Worlds Republic
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His hands didn't bleed anymore from the work.  Prisoner 833821  watched the streaks cross the horizon, north to south, and in the twilight of summer midnight, he could see the flash as some of them devoured a warship in orbit.
He didn't know what to feel at that.  He'd stopped feeling long ago-even the hunger was gone, though thirst remained.  the Guards looked afraid, in their elevated towers.
The camp smelled of dust and shit and blood and death.  
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Outside the camp, Thomas Vu Dao lowered his binoculars.  "Guards see it, they should be getting their orders to scramble soon."
"The shot's confirmed."  Charles Jennings said firmly, "Their warship's down, and seismic shows that the capital's had their bell rung, I believe that's our signal?"
"It is."  Thomas nodded.  
They'd shepherded the resources for this for years.  Training in secret places in the Folly and other remote areas, making or stealing weapons, mapping and watching the Rim Worlds Republic's forces.  Procedures, manpower, locations, a few times they'd managed to get a few of the prisoners out of the smaller outlying camps, never without triggering reprisals.
This time was going to be different.
It had to be.
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