Lantis-Erin

With every word the tv anchor speaks, the pressure grows until you feel that you might scream and break if you hear one more bit of bad news. You’re just a tiny grain of sand against the pounding, crushing waves – after wave after wave – of dark and bitter ocean. The world’s a fruit that’s rotten to the core and every breath is like a bite of poison, whose venom spreads until it’s just a shouting in your mind, that threatens to deafen everything you are. It’s an alley with both ends blocked, blackness spreading, nowhere left to run. But just when it becomes too much – no more, how

Chapter 2 -  An Impossible Future It was Ronon who voiced what they were all thinking. "Do you think they're telling the truth?" It was the obvious question. John leaned back in his chair and ran a hand through his messy hair, fragments of what he had just heard swirling through his mind. He still didn't quite know what to make of it all. And from the looks on the faces of everyone else in the conference room, neither did they. The two teenagers had finished telling their story roughly ten minutes ago. Woolsey had immediately called a meeting of all the senior staff members, marching those who had been in the holding cell back up the towe

oOo Five minutes later, shortly after the rain had stopped, the clearing was lit momentarily by a flare of pure diamond light, and then Rodney McKay and Ronon Dex appeared. Their backs were to John and they didn't see him at first. Rodney immediately began looking around, but stopped when he turned and laid eyes on John sitting beneath the tree. The scientist tapped Ronon on the back of his arm to get his attention, then stepped forwards, his face solemn. "Hey." "Hey." For once Rodney seemed to be at a loss for words and he glanced away, his eyes growing larger when he beheld the blasted remains of the entryway. "Woah." "Yeah. We did a pr