[ME] Leaving (Shiala, PG, Drabble)

[wallwalker]

Drabble for fic_promptly. Shiala, after Zhu's Hope falls apart. (Not using my standard header for drabbles; having the header be longer than the actual fic seems a bit off.)

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Zhu's Hope was lost.

Shiala took her last look at the ruined colony. There just hadn't been enough manpower to repair what they'd lost. Too many colonists had died, forced by the Thorian to fight a hopeless battle. She'd tried to help, to make up for hurting so many. But she was a commando; she was a destroyer, not a builder. She should have known better.

She'd promised to stay with the remaining colonists, and she would. But she hated leaving Feros. It felt like her world, her home. But that was all finished, now.

Slowly, sadly, she turned away.