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“It’s not much of a romance without it.”
She wore a long old-fashioned nightgown, the rope around the waist wrapped tight. I imagined those gorgeous breasts of hers underneath. A shame. They looked better when they lay naturally splayed like earlier.
She was dressed up in case I got too excited.
No need to worry about that, doll. I already relieved myself! You won’t be hearing a thing from me all night!
“What’s the plan for tomorrow?” I said.
“The same as today,” she said. “We’ll keep digging the tunnels we’ve made. The walls can’t be infinitely thick.”
Actually, yes they can. But I didn’t want to ruin her sense of optimism. It was refreshing.
“What?” she said.
She must have caught the faraway look in my eye.
“Nothing,” I said.
I lay down on the bedding on the floor and got comfortable.
“I was thinking,” Maddy said.
“Yeah?”
“What do you know about these creatures that abducted us? I mean, your species had a big empire. You must have run into them at some point.”
Clever girl.
We had. And it was never a fun experience. I would tell her as much as I could without scaring her.
“I know a little,” I said. “They’re called Changelings. They’ve been abducting Titans for many years. They’ve probably been taking humans just as long. They try to keep their activities hidden as much as possible. You probably don’t even know about it yet.”
“We hear about people getting abducted all the time. We tend to think of them as crackpots and weirdos.”
“I guess your opinion of them has changed a little by now,” I said.
“You might say that.”
“Okay,” I said. “One day your species will come in contact with them—but not until they’re ready for you to. They won’t reveal that they’ve been abducting humans since the dawn of time. They’ll make deals with your leaders that sound good but then you’ll later discover they take a lot more than they promised they would.”
Maddy nodded.
“We’ve got some countries like that on our planet,” she said. “They’re the first to cry foul when they’re the ones that are really doing the fouling.”
“Right. So maybe you won’t be so badly affected by them the way we were. But they’re bad guys and should never be trusted.”
“What happens to the people they abduct?” she said. “Do they ever come back?”
What should I tell her?
Should I be kind and lie and say they’re never seen again? Or should I tell the truth and say the ones that do return are never the same again? That they’re no longer trusted by their own species in case they’ve been brainwashed?
I was glad she couldn’t see my face. I wasn’t a good liar.
“Yes,” I said. “Some return.”
Better for her to keep her hope, I thought. Robbing her of it wouldn’t help anyone.
