Lost Zero's Body

Kuzzaz guffawed but felt a slight panic that Ladislas had found a human who was just as cunning as him.

"You still don't know how to resurrect her," Kuzzaz prompted.

Ladislas smiled and said the words he had been thinking about for a while. "I, Ladislas Forrester take thee, Anna, as my bride. Our bond is as long as time and we shall never part until time ceases to be." He stopped. His eyes bore into her. "Do you take me as your spouse?" he questioned.

"I do," Anna said lightly. Maybe she still didn't understand the weight of the commitment she had made, or death and pain had finally let her see that a life Ladislas was not appealing.

What were a few hundred thousand years of banality? She was sure she would find enough things to do. There would be enough new technology to study and people to save. She could manage it.

Much to her surprise, the excruciating pain in her body slowly faded.