If I Forget Thee, Earth

A Prayer for Earthrise, Book 5

Welcome to the alien zoo. In here, you’ll meet a variety of life from across the universe. Floating balloons of flesh from a gas giant’s storm. Sentient moss that controls golems of stone. Towering arachnids whose webs can entangle starships. And in one enclosure… humans. Us.

This zoo, you see, is run by powerful aliens. To the zookeepers, we are mere animals. Marco, Addy, and Einav are soldiers. Together, they fought many wars. And won them all. But now they’re trapped in a cage. Disarmed. Demeaned. Animals on display.

They must escape. But escaping a zoo is nothing like fighting a war. When you’re trapped like an animal in a cage, the true battle is within. A battle to maintain your humanity. Even here, caged and broken, they must not forget. Who they are. Where they came from. They must never forget Earth. And someday, they must come home.

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