“Wake up my love. Have this.”

“I can’t get up. I’m dying of hunger.”

“Death my love, I’ve got you food.”

Those words were music to her ears. It was like water to a man dying of thirst in the hot, sunny desert. Well!!! She was dying, not of thirst but of hunger, and hmmm… she was a woman not a man. Safe to say, “Like a woman dying of hunger.”

Jokes apart. Even with the hunger pangs killing her. She mustered all the strength her weak, frail body could gather and replied, “No. Please tell me you didn’t kill anyone onboard. You did not break your pact and the promises we made before embarking on this journey.”

“No my love, I know love knows no boundaries, but trust me these souls do not belong to anyone onboard. They are souls, the food of your life that I saved for a rainy day. Take it, feed on them, make them one with you and Eternity.”

She fed and before going to sleep whispered, “Thank you my love.”

Even with all the burdens and death tugging at my beloved death, she was strong, yes only a woman could have will power this strong.”

I raised my eyes up towards the hopeless HOPE, and glancing at the ships window I could see that we had reached our destination. The bright blue beautiful planet Earth lay before us.

The captain announced, “Prepare for landing, we will be entering the Earth’s atmosphere in 8. Sorry to miss our target of 07.07.07:07.07.07 by a long shot.”