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Miya ran to the control tablet. That slow bot better not be the cause of her death, or she was going to haunt the manufacturer.
“Can’t I just pull the door off its hinges?” she asked while starting the robot.
“Those are reinforced. The lock is tricky as well.”
While the bot was having a go at the bars, Miya watched the prisoner flex his fingers and toes, as if getting warmed up. Most probably to cut her throat with those retractable golden-yellow claws of his. They sure looked sharp.
The thought made her hesitate to use the opening created in no time by the bot.
“What are you waiting for, Earthling? Take the blindfold off. Now.” His tone was not a threatening one, rather like an order.
Someone was overly confident. What if she decided to ditch him in favor of an escape pod?
But Miya couldn’t back down at this point. She had the chance to save both herself and one of her passengers, a criminal though he might be.
“Do I have your word you’ll get me out of this nightmare alive?” she still asked while working on the securely tied blindfold.
“Would you trust the word of a hired killer?”
He had her there. Before Miya could say anything in reply, the blindfold finally came off.
Two perfectly human-shaped eyes met hers. Their color, though, was a deep green that did not exist on Earth.
As she watched, that unique color shifted to dark blue, right before rich purple swirled into his irises, only to be overtaken by dark green again. Then the enchanting dance began again, like a whirlpool drawing one amazing color in after another.
It was the most mesmerizing sight Miya had ever seen, comparable only to that of a supernova exploding. And she had seen the latter only on video. Looking away was impossible. Those swirls of color–
“You’re tiny.”
“Huh?” Miya blinked, coming out of her dazed state.
She came back to reality in time to catch the prisoner checking her out. All the while the cuffs keeping him pinned to the wall were snapping open one after the other. By themselves.
“What off Earth...”
The assassin got up, completely free.
She looked up and up some more to look at his face. He was towering over her and was also wide enough in the shoulders and chest to crowd her. But once again, Miya was too hypnotized by his eyes to notice the important stuff.
“How far is the nearest habitable planet?” he asked in that authoritative tone again, his gaze boring into hers.
“Um…”Snap out of it, Miya!“Not close enough for any help to get to us in time.”
“Is it reachable by an escape pod?”
She frowned. “It is.”
“Can a ship be found there that you can pilot?” He sounded so in control, so calm… as if the doors couldn’t open any second, unleashing murderous aliens on them.
“I… think so? There’s a small colony of humans there, so at least an evac ship should be–”
Miya squeaked when he picked her up by the waist and, a dizzying moment later, had her over his shoulder, Earth caveman style.
“Hey!”
The ‘tricky’ lock of the cage clicked open before he’d even reached the door. Just like that, they were out of the cage and on their way to…
“The escape pods? That’s your super-duper plan?” Forget about protesting against being carried like a sack of grain. This was beyond outrageous: his escape plan all along had been to use a pod–
