She could hear its words in her head and she tried to remain awake, for the sake of Aiden, but she was losing that battle and before she succumbed to the darkness the alien said one other thing to her. "Earth; the world that you once called home is no longer yours. It is ours now and you shall forever remember it as purgatory." *** COMING SOON: Published in "The Stand" by Polar Expressions PublishingAll Rights Reserved