The Time Ender

  On the bright side … we’re immune from the plague. You were right about the malnutrition and dehydration and how the plaque might be in the clothing. No more bio-clothes for anyone.

  Alex and I are working with the rebuilding effort. We’re staying with Uncle Merlig who’s not as stuffy as I thought at first. I’ve met my Uncle Covill too and some cousins who I like a lot better than Coreg. Without his time-pacing power Coreg has lost some status, but he’s still awfully popular with the girls here. I’m betting he ends up with Sama, but Alex thinks it’ll be Renzen. Poor Renzen.

  Did you know the two brothers, A.J. and Henry? They’re super smart scientists and they stayed on Gleezhe for a while to study the chelurium. When they got back here they petitioned Commander Cotay—he’s in total charge now—to send the chelurium samples stored in Klaqin’s Pletori into deep space. Henry calls chelurium “the time-ender” element. Good name I guess.

  Buddy’s going to tell you that my burns are worse than his, but don’t worry about that. I went swimming in a pool of melting purlass and that stuff works like aloe. It was accidental, but when they brought our purlass capsule back to Klaqin Alex snuck me in with him. When you’re inside it’s like you’re invisible to the people outside. We must have generated a bit more body heat than usual, or maybe it was a chemical reaction to the residual red dust, but anyway it melted. Good thing they didn’t need that capsule anymore.

  I have a ton more to tell you when Dad brings me and Alex home. But I have to stop writing because Buddy is breathing down my neck, anxious to get on the Fighter Six with Commander Tarsi and the others who are returning to Earth now.

  Love and kisses,

  Selina.

  P.S. You probably noticed when you first arrived on Klaqin and also when Alex came with me to visit you in the thotti that there’s something different between us. I think it’s serious, maybe like what you and dad have, so we’ve made promises to each other and we exchanged thumb rings. It was funny, but we had to change them back right away since they’re calibrated to our own DNA, but anyway I’m sort of engaged. Please remember that I’m probably well over twenty-one Earth time by now. And I’ve already been married once—just kidding—the Gleezhian prince promised me off to Marcum, but it wasn’t official. Marcum and I haven’t mentioned it again and the prince is history now anyway so that’s one more story to tell when I return. At any rate you probably aren’t surprised. I suppose I was destined to end up with the boy next door.

  The End

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  Other books by Debra Chapoton

  THE GIRL IN THE TIME MACHINE

  EXODIA

  OUT OF EXODIA

  A SOUL’S KISS

  THE GUARDIAN’S DIARY

  SHELTERED

  CROSSING THE SCRIPTURES

  EDGE OF ESCAPE

  THE TIME BENDER

  THE TIME PACER

  THE TIME STOPPER

  THE TIME ENDER