With her brother. If this were truly a nightmare, it shouldn't matter, should it? I loved my wife, though. Still. Even in a dream, I couldn't do that ...to her. I wouldn't do that to her."Of course," he murmured, obviously disappointed in my answer. "That's probably everyone's favorite ... especially when they're not really sure why they're getting divorced." I know why I'm getting divorced," I said evenly. I felt unclean, though. I felt ... broken."Of course you do," he said agreeably. "Otherwise. "Unfortunate circumstances befell us about 26,000 years ago when a wandering black hole past through our small section of the galaxy and tore eight solar systems from their paths. The other system that accompanies ours is the only other system that survived; the other six being consumed by the black hole. We have been on a trajectory away from our parent galaxy and have not been able to return to any of the worlds we once knew. Once the technology of the Ancient's failed we no longer had travel. Rex had already started to give Queenie his spunk when Queenie’s mistress the girl in the cardigan looked up from her phone to see her lovely Collie dishonored by a stranger’s dog.She lifted her skirts showing her slender sun-tanned legs and ran to Queenie’s aid but a bit too late to stop the two from finishing what they had started in the way that all dogs do with little planning and precious little time. The German Shepard ran back to his young master like a warrior unleashed for sport and. He'd seen the spots before, though, so they didn't bother him.Gasping for breath, he ran through a parking lot. He saw no one. Looking back he saw no pursuit, but he ran on. He ran until he couldn't run anymore, until his scrawny body had nothing left to give him, and then he collapsed. He looked up at the sky, the first time he'd looked directly up to an open sky since the aliens had abducted him. He was halfway under a tree, a large alien tree that stretched to the heavens. At least the.