Conquest Earth <Free ✦>

“Conquest,” he whispered to himself, tasting the word like ash. “We wanted to conquer Earth.”

“God help us for what comes next.”

On the screen below, a single image flickered—a drone feed from what remained of a city called Geneva. A child, no older than six, stood alone in a crater. She held a torn flag in one hand and a broken toy in the other. She wasn’t crying. She was staring directly up at the sky. At the Odyssey . Conquest Earth

Vell blinked. “Sir? We won.”