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I cursed. I was the one who should be encouraging her, not the other way around. I raised her hand to my lips and kissed it. "Of course, you will, cinna. Forgive me."
"Luckily, there are two what the humans calldoctorsin the group who have both volunteered their full assistanceand knowledge to us," Meloch continued, having no empathy for us. "I have also already begun harvesting human blood compatible with Lady Silla’s. As soon as Caceax Adrtet arrives, we can begin with the procedure."
"Wait, you haven't told us how dangerous it is," I cautioned.
"My knowledge of humans is limited, but from what the doctors said, it's the human brain we have to worry about the most, since it is the one part of the body that can be the least deprived of blood. We only have minutes to perform the procedure before the human brain slowly begins to die."
Silla cried out and I laid my arms protectively around her. "And if we don't do this?"
"I'm afraid her blood cells have already begun to thicken. I can't give you an exact estimate until—"
"How long?" I barked.
Moloch shrugged. "Weeks? Months? The longer we wait, the longer the procedure will take. And the longer the procedure takes, the more her life will be at risk."
A hard rock formed inside my chest. Could fate really be this cruel and take my mekarry from me?
Most of all I berated myself, this was my fault.
"I'm so sorry, Silla. This is my fault."
"Howcould this possibly be your fault?" she asked bewildered.
"I should have never allowed the Cryons to take you back to my room. I should have escorted you myself," I voiced my biggest regret. "If I had, this would have never happened."
"You didn't know," she tried to soothe me.
"I should have," I reiterated and meant it. I knew how cruel the Cryons could be to their prisoners.
She put a hand on my cheek and forced me to look into her eyes. "Garth, look at me." Reluctantly I obeyed. "This. Is. Not. Your. Fault! Do you hear me?"
I didn't want to argue with her—this was about her, not me; my burden to carry. Right now she needed me to be strong, not her building my bruised ego up.
"I beg your pardon, Caceax Adrtet has arrived," a disembodied voice on the wall comm announced.
"Good, good. Send him up." Giddily Moloch rubbed his hands together. He was the most animated I had ever seen.
The Pandraxian who entered was older, as his title suggested. His skin had darkened considerably as it did in age, and his face was filled with wrinkles.
"Is that the specimen?" he asked, ignoring everybody but Silla. "Interesting, let me see you my dear."
"She is Lady Silla, my mate." I rose to my full height to stare Caceax Adrtet down. I didn't care who he was, nobody addressed my mekarry asspecimen.
"Of course, please forgive my manners, but I have been told about this new species, humma and—"
"Human," Silla hissed.
"Human." Caceax Adrtet smiled. "Forgive me dea—Lady Silla. At my age you don't get to discover many new things anymore."
I didn't think Moloch interrupted to stop Caceax Adrtet from embarrassing himself even more, he did it because he wanted Adrtet's attention. "Caceax Adrtet it is such an honor to see you again. It's been too long."
"Senior medtech Moloch, I'm proud of you, you were always a promising student." Caceax Adrtet praised Moloch. "I read your report on Hettitas brainwave measurements, very impressive."
If Moloch had beamed any brighter, he would have put our sun to shame.
"I would appreciate if you would put your ass-kissing aside for a moment and tell me what you will do to save my mekarry," I interrupted their little bootlicking contest.
"Garth." Silla shook her head at me.
