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“I need to understand these things to use them to protect us.”
I put my remote weapon down and picked up a black wand thing. The side of the bar said the healer. The end had a reset switch and a button. I reset it to my thumb and pressed the button, waving it over my hand. I heard Terrek hiss as I waved the beeping wand over my hand. I saw a white light scan my hand, and a pulse began. I felt a warm tingle as my hand healed from the thorn that had bitten me. Terrek sank to his knees in wonderment.
“You can wield the power of the Gods?” He asked.
I did not have it in me to be dismissive of his feelings. I reached out to touch his cheek gently.
“Oh, Terrek, honey, this is not God’s Power. This is just technology.”
Terrek leaned into my palm. I felt his affection toward me. His need for my comforting touch. I found myself attracted to this raw side of Terrek. I wanted to comfort him. His grief and pain are a reflection of my own. Shaking that off, I tried to explain.
“I can read the instructions on the device, and it seems easy enough.”
I showed him the remote weapon and explained the buttons. And showed him the wand.
See, it›s a tool, like your net or your bow and quiver.»
“I know what tools are, woman. I just haven’t ever seen a tool like this.”
I picked up another gadget, and I read it as well. It said mass stasis sleep containment. I wondered what that was? There was a device the size of a cell phone that said Captain Requirements Educator.
It all conveniently had the reset feature. The humming in my head was starting to irritate me. I needed to reset it and add my thumb to this device. An urgency that was taking my own will away.
“Okay, already!” I snap at the air. Terrek gave me a shocked expression.
“Sorry, Terrek, but I have to reset this one too.” “I need to,” I said as I pressed my thumb to the small scanning area. I had an instant information overload that started streaming into my head. I couldn’t quite understand the sensation. Suddenly, my head eased up, and blackness took over.
Chapter 4
Terrek
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y heart stopped when my crazy bond mate fell over as if she had died. She had been trying to convince me these God powers were harmless tools. I am failing at being her bond mate. Reluctantly, carefully, I placed that device in her bag with the others.
That Infant Chetaht was hissing angrily at me as I pulled my bond mate over my shoulder to find a safe spot to hide from the Kanenites who invaded my world.
This foreign woman was fascinating and infuriating all at once. The Kanenites have gathered and stolen most of my world’s people and animals. I was the last of my tribe, the last of any life left on my planet, along with the Chetaht and my alien mate.
I wondered how she had traveled to my world, but my guilt was all-consuming. What kind of Chief will I be for my people? I guessed I would never be chief now. The Laverian people are now somewhere up in the stars.
The female that I found myself bonded to had fainted after she touched her tool. I had to carry her to this cave. She had been asleep, and I was worried she wouldn›t wake up. I Heard the frantic rhythm of my heart pounding, like a wild beast trapped in a cage trying to escape. My ears pounded and added to my desperation. I needed my mate safe and unharmed.
The night sky was so beautiful I often took smoke next to an open fire just to gaze up and wonder what lived beyond the stars. Now, my heart clenches because anger will always fill me at the sight of the night sky.
Life exists up out in the stars. Evil had come and stolen my people. I was on my traditional excursion where I dressed as our ancestors would have, and I lived in the wild for thirty rotations to become one with the land that provides.
This was the way of my kind. My father is retiring as Chief, and he wants me to take on the role of Chief since it is my time to lead. I was three days from being complete with my thirty days of wild. when I saw the signals from my village when the invasion happened. The sky lit up, and these flying ships swooped down and attacked.
By the time I made my way to my home, my village was vacant. The spacemen stole everything from me. Everyone I knew was now gone. My parents, my people.
I was nearly captured by the tiny ships that scanned my land when I discovered that this cave hid me from the God power of the space machines.
These spacemen have scanners to find us. I saw them use the scanning thing that flew around when they took the animals. In a matter of days, they have taken every living thing. I had tracked this baby Chetaht after I witnessed the creature’s pride captured days ago. I don’t know how this little one was overlooked, but when it bravely left its den early to seek out its mother. I knew I had to capture it and ride out what was left of our life together. Either that tiny beast would devour me, or the spacemen would capture me.
I felt nothing but guilt and loneliness. The man I was reduced to, became a hopeless soul. I was weak and at a loss. I had contemplated ending my life. I am a Laverian warrior male, the next in line to be Chief. I am supposed to be stronger than that.
I am supposed to honor my people in all my actions. Their fate utterly haunted me. I have no idea what these Kanenites are doing to my tribe up in the stars. I had decided to focus on saving that abandoned Chetaht kit, I made that my priority. After all, he was left alone like I was.
