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But how?
The ship was overrun. They would take the ship elsewhere as soon as they could. It was too close to the Titan planet and they might launch an effective counter-terrorist operation.
The hyperspace gateway was still ahead of us. They could pass through it and take the ship to any part of the galaxy.
I would be left to survive and scrounge on the ship.
Alone.
I was a prisoner once again, taken hostage by another set of aliens.
Only these aliens had no intention of treating me civilly.
Even Shrisa was better than these guys.
Maybe I should give up and climb back in my pod.
Sleeping had to be better than whatever they had planned for me.
I shook my head. That sounded too much like giving up.
First, I would head back to the flight attendants’ quarters. It was the safest place I’d yet discovered. From there, I could think about what I would do next.
What a mess.
I stepped from the pod and listened for footsteps.
I stepped into the huge hallway and prepared to bolt across the open expanse when—
“Hey! Hey you!”
It was one of them.
One of those Changeling things.
I turned to glance at him and found there wasn’t just one of them.
There were two.
And they were barreling directly toward me.
I ran down the gangway, my boots clumping loudly on the harsh metal. I wanted to escape down the same gangway I’d come from but the Changeling soldiers were coming at an angle. I had to diverge down another gangway.
The Changelings barked into their communicators, informing their comrades of my location.
They were going to work together to pin me in.
And they were going to catch me.
Then I would be locked away in my pod again.
If I was lucky.
They said something about the aliens’ families paying a ransom before they were freed.
My family had no money. And they didn’t believe in aliens.
Maybe I would never wake from my pod.
