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I panicked.
There was no way they wouldn’t see me. Even if they couldn’t, it didn’t take a genius to figure out where I was hiding.
I bent down and grabbed a rock from the shallow pool.
“Well, well, well, boys,” one of the hideous Changeling soldiers said with a sneer. “Where do you suppose she is?”
A second Changeling snickered and edged in an arc to cover me from one side. A third Changeling did the same on the other side.
“I’m not sure,” he said. “It sure is hard to figure out.”
I pressed my forehead to the tree. I might have saved Fiath’s life but it would cost my own.
So be it, I decided. It was worth it.
At least Fiath had a chance of achieving his mission and freeing his people. What was one life compared to that?
The sneering Changeling grabbed me and yanked me from the tree.
I used the momentum and swung my arm around. I struck him across the chest with the rock.
He stumbled back but the hard outer plating of his body absorbed the worst effects of the blow. He swung out an arm lazily and knocked me to the ground.
I landed in the thin stream and tasted blood on my lips.
“She’s not even a Titan,” one of his Changeling buddies said.
“What do you think she is?” the third one said. They had no distinguishing features and I couldn’t tell one from another.
The sneering Changeling knelt before me.
“Just another backward species,” he said.
He pressed his blaster pistol against my temple.
“I’m doing you a favor putting you out of your miserable existence,” he said.
My instinct was telling me to plead for my life, but I refused to do it. Not to scum like this.
He began to squeeze the trigger.
YAAARRGGHHH!
The howl snagged their attention. Plasma fire sprayed the area, some burning the earth not more than a few inches from my head.
I wrapped my hands over my head—for whatever good that would do! I shut my eyes and said my prayers.
The Changelings returned fire but it didn’t last long. Within seconds, it was over.
Hands reached down and lifted me onto my feet.
I spun around, fists clenched, ready to fight.
“Easy there, little one,” Nus said.
I could have hugged her for rescuing me but striding up behind her was Fiath.
And he did not look pleased.
