Free Terran Times Second Wave # 10 - Liberty by Viola Grace Page A

to be free of all charges? No conspiracy and no misuse of emergency services on my record?”
    “We will remove the current charges.”
    “Good. Can you expunge my entire record of all charges? I want my parents to be able to hold their heads up high at the church picnics. I am a volunteer, not a freak anymore.”
    He made some notes on his tablet. “The request to completely wipe your records has been sent. Now we wait.”
    She raised her brows. “We wait here?”
    “It will not be long. True seers are not as common as your fiction would have you believe.”
    Libby chuckled and sat with her hands in her lap, the chains resting on her thighs.
    He was correct. In half an hour, the deal had been struck and Libby was signing the contract to leave in a week. It would give her seven days with her family and time to sort out her belongings.
    “When the time comes to pick you up, we will send a vehicle to collect you. All you need is your bag and you will be on your way to the stars.”
    She cocked her head as he worked on his tablet with both hands. She had to admit, he could type fast for a dude.
    A guard came in and unlatched her cuffs. She rubbed her wrists. “Just like that?”
    Norz inclined his head and slid the tablet over to her. “We had begun the process before we arrived. We merely needed your agreement to complete the circle.”
    Libby read the agreement. She promised to let them train her, offered her mind for observation and her body for enhancements. In all important things, she was theirs, but she was being given free rein and the support of the Alliance and Nyal Imperium to see what was given to her by the universe and use it to save lives.
    She signed the tablet with her finger and pressed her thumb in the box indicated for her to do so. For good or ill, she was taking the chance that she had been offered. Her parents had drilled two things into her. The first one was do good where you can, the second was heed the signs that you were given.
    Being in custody and having an alien pull strings to get her out was a definite sign from whatever deity was looking down on her.
    She left the room with her new guards, and after a brief checkout of the facility, she exited her prison and headed for the vehicles on offer.
    Her trip home was done circumspectly in the black four-by-four that took her up the badly paved roads and to her home town of Peach Sweet.
    She got out of the vehicle, still in her prison scrubs, and she hugged her family as they came out to greet her. They were conflicted about the good news but not about her release. They wanted nothing more than to have her free. Liberty was the motto they lived by, and they were relieved to have her with them once again, even for a little while.
     

 
     
     
Chapter Two
     
     
    Libby received the warning that she was being picked up in the morning, so at dawn the next day, she was on the porch with her family and waiting for her ride.
    Her mother was clutching one hand; her brother was clutching the other. They all stared out at the open field in front of them and waited to see a car on the road.
    “Libby, I want you to know that we support you in whatever you do.”
    Her father put his hand on her shoulder, and she felt surrounded by love at that moment.
    “I know, Dad. That support let me open my mouth to begin with. Without you behind me, I never would have had the guts to make those first calls.”
    Her mother squeezed her hand. “God gave you that talent for a reason. Who are we to deny his purpose?”
    Libby didn’t see the deity like her parents did, but she nodded her head. “Precisely. Why have it if you don’t use it?”
    The time for the pickup was finally there, and she looked around when a sound became audible coming from the north. The family looked over as one. The craft became larger and larger as it approached, until the half-kilometer vessel was settling in the meadow to the left of the house.
    Liberty got to her feet and hugged her