Love binds tightly, so they say, but forbidden love grips with the strength and hunger of the universe itself, as Alice Peterson well understood. She knew the past, intimately, and it knew her. And the past brought woe. It brought fear and famine and hunger. And the past had forgotten itself. It had forgotten the self-inflicted disasters, the pain, the suffering, and the voracity and hunger of the reap. Her crew, dead; all of them. Her planet - Earth - mesmerised by her promise and allure. And her heart, damaged by the loss of her soul flame and crew member, Robbie, sought retribution. The inner ones drove her to her goal. To the next great reap, like the past already knew of. Something lurked within her soul. Something new. Something she'd never known before. A passion for retribution driven by the sense of unfairness she felt the universe had dealt her. She was back, Commander Alice Peterson, carrying the child of Robbie and with trillions of the inner ones swarming through her. She was back again in unlikely circumstances. From Ceres.
