It was a nightmare. But Lauren Wagner did not know that. It's often that way with bad dreams.
{T-minus five minutes and counting.}
"We are not evil," a voice said, deep inside Lauren's mind. "We just enjoy our duty."
Lauren felt anxious. The countdown was ending. At last she was leaving for Mars. Soon the shuttle's rockets would ignite and she would be hurtled into space. All lights on the shuttle's control board shone green. Yet something was wrong. The lights were blurred, as if she were seeing them underwater. She tilted her head and found the rest of the cockpit also cloudy. She tried opening and closing her eyes to clear her vision, but it did not help. In fact, her sight grew worse. The cloudiness puzzled her, as did her thoughts of duty, and evil.
{T-minus four minutes, thirty seconds, and counting.}
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