He watched the video feed on the closed circuit, seeing the two young men talking with the others. Tom couldn’t believe it.
It had been three years since he’d seen Cole and almost two since he’d left Alec without explanation. He knew both would be angry at him when the shock wore off, especially as they had both been through such unimaginable hardships to reach him, but he couldn’t think of the negatives right then. His nephews had come home.
He hadn’t informed them about the true history of their lives, having given them only what they needed to know in order to survive. He knew these two were the key to everything; the spark that would ignite the human race into open rebellion against the traitors to their kind and the alien bastards who so long ago took what didn’t belong to them.
He would have to deal with their anger, but he also hoped that, with time, they would learn to forgive him and understand why he did the things he did.
Twenty-five years this plan had been forming, had been building, gathering momentum until the sheer physics of it possessed so much inertia that one man would be powerless to stop it.
It had started with a few people intent on overthrowing their alien Overseers, and that small rebellion had become an idea, a religion in a way, and while a man or a woman or an army cold be killed, an idea could not.
They would reclaim the Earth. They would rise.
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Nathan Hystad is the best-selling author of The Event. He writes about alien invasion, first contact, colonization, and everything else he devoured growing up. He's had hundreds of thousands of copies sold and read, and loves the fact he's been able to reach so many amazing readers with his stories.
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