I had never felt so happy in my life. Everything that I had been through was worth it just to be in this moment. Just when I thought that Viqer had betrayed me, there was something much more complex going on. He was saving me. He had confessed his love for me.
Now, we were three hours away from our new home planet of Etora. It was completely unbelievable to think that after trying to stay on Earth for so long, I was going to spend the rest of my life on a planet that I had never even heard of until that day in the slave market.
Viqer held my hand and led me to a small room that had weapons and a locked box.
"What is it? Are you going to sell these weapons so that we can buy a home?” I asked him.
"No, we are going to use this,” he said as he opened the box and pulled out several bags of money.
"Yes, it is gold coin. I was to use it to buy guns on Etora during the mission when we first landed. But that purchase did not go as planned. It has been sitting here waiting to be used to buy guns. I chose our escape ship well.”
I laughed and hugged him. He was a brilliant warrior; everyone had been right about that. “Well, I don’t think we will have a problem finding a home now.” I kissed him on the mouth, and he pulled me close.
“Yes, it will be whatever you choose it to be. Now let’s go get dressed so that we can start our search,” he said as he patted me on the bottom.
“Yes, and maybe I can get some new clothes too,” I said to him with a laugh. I had been in only two outfits throughout our whole ordeal, and I needed to be in some new clothes.
We both dressed and prepared to search Etora for a new home. He landed the ship on the other side of the planet away from the city we had landed in before. I was astonished by its beauty. It was not the green planet of Krillis, but it was a red-stone hills planet with plenty of water features and beautiful landscapes. The sun shone brightly on this planet, but not too hot, and I knew that I could be happy in an environment like this.
“I will show you my favorite place. It is a small village called Clox, and it is mostly families, and it is safe. It is over here,” he said as he moved my attention to the other side of the ship.
“Oh we are so close,” I said as I turned my attention to the small village. We had landed just outside its beautiful stone gates. Viqer locked up our ship, and we were on our way to the village to search for our perfect home.
Months later, we were settled in Clox and into the most gorgeous place I had ever seen. It sure beat my Brooklyn apartment. We had chosen a home in the natural setting of Etora far away from the trading cities. Clox turned out to be perfect, just as Viqer thought it would. There were all kinds of alien races living in the village, and I had never felt so stimulated by what every single race had to offer. I would never grow bored in this setting.
Our home was a nice and luxurious one with a beautiful view of rocky sandstone mountains and a lake in the distance. It was absolutely perfect, and when we welcomed the arrival of our child, Syqer, we knew that it was the perfect place to raise him.
"I have never been this happy. I thought that fighting and battles was all that life had to offer me. You showed me differently, Saramina. Now, our small child is showing me that living for him is what life is all about,” Viqer said as he placed a kiss on my forehead as I held our child in my arms.
"I feel the same way. I thought that I could not have a life unless that life was on Earth. I had no idea that out here was a much bigger universe and that I could find happiness anywhere as long as I was with the right love. Thank you for showing me that. Thank you for giving up everything for me, and for him. It means a great deal to me, and I know that it will mean a great deal to him when he is older and knows the truth.”
"Are you sure? You know, if you would've stayed on Krillis, you would be the leader of an entire planet. That is a lot to let go of, especially since it is all that you have ever known,” I said looking at him.
"Yes, at some point maybe that is what I wanted, but not after meeting you. I cannot live a life without you, that is not what I want. I would give up ruling a thousand planets to be with you.”
I smiled and walked over to him. I sat in his lap, and he put his arms around me. We both looked down at the face of our beautiful child in my arms.
"Yes, a beautiful life, a beautiful wife, and a beautiful child. This is everything to me,” he said.
And so Viqer, Syqer, and I lived on Etora. There was more adventure for us to come, but we took it day by day, enjoying each other's company. It was all that we wanted, and it was exactly what we got. I had my Corillion warrior that I had dreamed of, that I didn't even know I wanted so badly until I was faced with certain death. Then I knew, and now I had it, and I couldn't be happier.
The End