In that moment there were three things she knew to be certain.
1. The heat haze that made the desert horizon shimmer also made the cliffs appear further away.
2. Kay wouldn't be able to stop in time.
3. She didn't have enough time to warn them that they were too close.
In that moment she did what she believed to be the best option and destroyed her comm system. The governors would believe it to be sabotage if she looked beaten enough and she'd live to see another day in spite of her failure leading to the deaths of the governor's favourite recon team.
She was found unconscious and bleeding, just as she'd planned, and spared, just as she'd planned. Unfortunately she didn't plan on the governors counting this as an act of devotion and self-sacrifice, nor did she plan on them asking her to assemble a team to hunt down the saboteurs who dared to interrupt their reconnaissance missions.
There were several ways in which she saw herself taking this opportunity.
She could assign herself to hunt them down as an "act of vengeance" and gather enough supplies to make it to one of the rival bases, join them and survive a while longer. However should the governors discover her plot she would be hunted to death, possibly leading to the genocide of an entirely innocent faction in the process.
She could pick the best of the best and have them hunt a rival faction to death, gaining further favour within the governors and further cementing herself within their core. However this would make her even more of a target than she already was and more factions would notice her as a person of importance instead of a mere errand runner.
She could also pick the worst of the worst and send them off to their deaths, making the faction stronger but risking her own life if their deaths were deemed "unnecessary". However she might also be praised for strengthening the faction, the governors despised the unnecessary and should she become that or cause it then her life was as good as forfeit.
No matter how she was swiftly she was running out of time, she still found the chance to pray for the recon team she'd killed. She prayed for her own soul as much as theirs, finding no answers from above and wondering how long she could delay before she had to make the choice that would likely end her own life.
1. The heat haze that made the desert horizon shimmer also made the cliffs appear further away.
2. Kay wouldn't be able to stop in time.
3. She didn't have enough time to warn them that they were too close.
In that moment she did what she believed to be the best option and destroyed her comm system. The governors would believe it to be sabotage if she looked beaten enough and she'd live to see another day in spite of her failure leading to the deaths of the governor's favourite recon team.
She was found unconscious and bleeding, just as she'd planned, and spared, just as she'd planned. Unfortunately she didn't plan on the governors counting this as an act of devotion and self-sacrifice, nor did she plan on them asking her to assemble a team to hunt down the saboteurs who dared to interrupt their reconnaissance missions.
There were several ways in which she saw herself taking this opportunity.
She could assign herself to hunt them down as an "act of vengeance" and gather enough supplies to make it to one of the rival bases, join them and survive a while longer. However should the governors discover her plot she would be hunted to death, possibly leading to the genocide of an entirely innocent faction in the process.
She could pick the best of the best and have them hunt a rival faction to death, gaining further favour within the governors and further cementing herself within their core. However this would make her even more of a target than she already was and more factions would notice her as a person of importance instead of a mere errand runner.
She could also pick the worst of the worst and send them off to their deaths, making the faction stronger but risking her own life if their deaths were deemed "unnecessary". However she might also be praised for strengthening the faction, the governors despised the unnecessary and should she become that or cause it then her life was as good as forfeit.
No matter how she was swiftly she was running out of time, she still found the chance to pray for the recon team she'd killed. She prayed for her own soul as much as theirs, finding no answers from above and wondering how long she could delay before she had to make the choice that would likely end her own life.
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