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I could feel the tissue on my back start to knit together, the pain gradually receding.
It was working, but it was painfully slow.
Frustration bubbled within me.
I needed to be out there, with her.
But I could do nothing from here.
Except heal.
Only if I was strong could I aid her.
I studied the layout of the pods once more.
Glass shells with metal tops strewn with blinking lights and advanced machinery.
I pressed my palm against the pod wall, the cool glass didn’t yield in the slightest.
I couldn’t break it.
They had been made to hold beasts even stronger than me.
For now, mating was the only way out of this place.
But as Aurora said, there had to be another way out of here.
There justhadto be.
As the seconds birthed minutes, I grew more and more uncertain, staring at the unlit bulbs on the other pods.
If one lit up, it meant another male had Claimed her… and I would visit unholy vengeance upon the creature that did that.
Aurora
The frenzied symphony of the jungle enveloped me, its song punctuated by my hasty footfalls.
Every rustling leaf and croaking creature reminded me that in this vast, strange world, I was not alone.
Flashes of Jayas’s last stand replayed in my mind.
His artful dodges and calculated moves made him seem invincible, ethereal.
That fatal, unexpected blow to his back had brought everything crashing down, leaving me feeling like a lost child amidst these cosmic wonders.
His words, his warmth, his protective embrace, were gone now.
And I was all alone.
But there was an easy way to be with him again.
I had to commit suicide.
I spied a rock and considered using it to bash my brains in.
I picked it up… and then hesitated.
I had seen some of the alien males reset back in their glass tanks, still sporting the injuries they had occurred earlier.
