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Hmm. Emotional, this one. Impulsive.
I wasn’t going to let him get close to me. He’d probably beat me or rape me. That’s what they did. Treated humans like property, something they owned to do with whatever they pleased.
It was sick. And now they had my sister.
“I think you forget who is in charge right now, Davon,” I began, and he actually growled at me, bared his teeth and everything. “I can sit here all day until you tell me what I want to know,” I continued boldly.
After a good ten minutes of silence, his bravado faltered a bit. Suddenly he seemed a bit unsure of himself. The longer I was with him, the more I got the feeling that he was a younger man, that he wasn’t battle tested and hardened like the others I’d seen before.
“Where did you come from, Davon? Did you arrive on Earth long ago?”
“No,” he answered, sound vaguely defeated. “I only came here yesterday. I’m to be stationed at the training camp, but I was doing rounds. Higher-ups are convinced more humans are wandering free.”
I said nothing. I didn’t want to hint at the existence of any of the others who depended on me for protection.
He sat down and gazed up at me. He chewed his lower lip.
It was actual kind of cute. I mean, if he wasn’t an alien of course.
“What do you want with me?” he asked.
“I lost a sister some time ago to a group of four Vakarrans. I want to know where she is, what they did with her,” I said, leaning forward to watch him.
“How do you expect me to know?” he scoffed.
“Aren’t you guys connected somehow? Some sort of technology or something?” I asked.
“Don’t you think I would have already signaled them directly if I did?” he responded with a sigh.
I watched him for a moment. He looked rather sheepish.
“You forgot it, didn’t you,” I guessed, and his expression turned immediately guilty. Bingo. He didn’t look at me as he kicked the steel wall gently, testing it.
“I left my com back at camp. Morgn is never going to let me live this down,” he whined. I struggled not to laugh.
“I don’t let you out unless you help me out here. I need to know where my sister is so that I can rescue her. She doesn’t deserve to be bred like cattle at the hands of you bastards,” I replied, my jawline tensing.
His jaw ticked and then he sighed. He pressed a button on the corner of his earpiece. A hologram screen appeared as his pupils began to search, moving back and forth as he read some alien text scrolling before his eyes.
“That doesn’t allow you to signal your comrades then?” I asked with suspicion.
“No. Not this,” he replied.
I scoffed. I didn’t know whether or not to believe him.
“What’s her name?” he sighed.
“Kira Stryke.”
“So, you’re Alaina Stryke, then. Younger sister, I’m guessing?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
He was quiet for a while longer.
“She’s on the ISS Starrider. With the first battalion. Four men to one woman. Says here they claimed her as theirs, by capture right law, I guess,” he said.
