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“He’s from a different pack. He’s just going to help us. You can keep him quarantined. He’ll agree to that.”
My eyes widened. If I was quarantined, then—
Weapons put a hand over my lips and smiled at me. “Trust me,” she whispered.
“Why would I risk that?” Hypatia asked.
“Because you can tell it’s all falling apart anyway. What is the point of High Command if they can’t protecting us from the male taint?”
“Let me talk to the male,” Chef said.
“Speaking,” I said.
“Goddess, your voice is deep.”
“You still think you’re immune, Lesbian?”
Weapons kicked my shin and hissed at me. “Don’t be rude!”
“Apologies,” I said, “should I just call you ‘Chef’ then?”
“You can go ahead and call meChief,” she said, all the friendliness that I’d heard in her voice talking to Weapons was suddenly gone.
“Very well, Chief. With respect, I ask that you allow us to boardEden’s Rib. I’ll take whatever quarantine precautions you feel are necessary.”
“Thuliak has been bypassing our computers. He’s sending invitations to individual crew women. He’s trying to get us to abandon ship voluntarily and go over toWrath. He hasn’t resorted to sending his dirty holograms onto our ship, but I fear that’s coming next. I don’t think I can hold things together if that happens.”
“It’s likely,” I said. “It’s only a matter of time.”
“Unless you can stop him?”
“I could,” I said, “but continuing the thread of honesty, I don’t think it will buy you more than a few weeks.”
“Youas in my crew? Oryouas in me personally?”
“I meant your crew.”
“What about me then?”
I gave Weapons a look, and then I muted our comms. “She can’t hear us. What does she want?”
“She doesn’t want to be forced to breed.”
“Why would we ever force that?”
“Because you’re bigger and stronger? And you like inseminating?”
“But never against a woman’s will.”
“What will you do with women like Chef?”
“Women who don’t want our seed? We’ll leave them be. What else would we do?”
“Tell her that,” Weapons said.
“We have no interest in lesbians,” I said, turning the comms back on. “You may continue your lesbian pursuits as you see fit. Khetar can never breed by force. You have nothing to fear from us, Chief Hypatia.”
There was a long exhalation on the other end of the comms, and then Chief’s voice came back clear and confident. “Nothing to fear? Short of the complete destruction of our society and our way of life? I’m opening the airlock. I want to talk to Weapons as soon as you’re docked. And I wantyouto stay in that airlock. Are we clear?”
