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Their comments went ignored.
My mouth felt dry. I never thought I would see her again. In fact, I engineered the situation so I would never have to see her again.
It was hard doing that to myself—to refuse to lay eyes on the most beautiful creature in the galaxy, to refuse to let myself touch and be with her…
It was for the best. Much better for her to think I was dead than to learn the truth.
She drew to a stop in front of my cell.
I couldn’t meet her eyes. I longed to gaze upon her but I couldn’t do it. I scanned her body out the corner of my eye, never daring to look at her directly.
She shouldn’t be here.
I turned my body away from her, keeping the worst of my injuries facing the back wall. I even kept the worst of the facial scars on my left cheek from her.
Was it just me or did my cell feel like it’d shrunk to half its regular size?
“Is there anything you need?” Stari said.
“Take her away from here,” I said. “She doesn’t need to see me like this.”
Stari ignored me and remained looking at Maddy.
“Open the cell door,” Maddy said.
I stepped forward and stabbed a finger at Stari.
“Don’t you dare!” I said. “We made a deal!”
“Yes, well, I made a new one with Maddy,” Stari said. “Computer. Open the cell door.”
The door hissed open. I backed away from it, so far my back met the wall.
“Looks like the big man is afraid of the little girl,” Klang hissed to his sister.
“Is there a way to block the other cell out?” Maddy said.
“Only the sound,” Stari said.
“Do it.”
“Computer, mute the next cell.”
The Changeling siblings yelled and shouted. They would still hear the noises they made but we couldn’t. They banged on the partition wall with their fists. That sound was blocked too.
“Do you want me to stay?” Stari said.
I don’t know why she asked her if she wanted her to stay. I was the one that needed protection.
“No,” Maddy said. “You can go. I’m safe with him.”
Stari frowned at me. She’d never been very warm with me but now she was downright frosty. She marched out of the room.
The door hissed shut.
It seemed very quiet in that space.
Too quiet.
