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The alarm came from outside his cell and continued to blare loudly.
Shouts rose up from throats that had to be other prisoners.
Egara frowned. He turned to me and took in all my glory, naked, in his bed, ready for him to take advantage of however he saw fit. He looked to be in some quandary about what he ought to do next.
He grunted in agitation and stepped from the bed, naked as the day he was born—assuming Vulcarians were born in the traditional human sense—and scooped up his pants and slipped them on.
I pulled the blanket to my breast and held it there, peering at the door as he approached it.
There wasn’t anything odd about his species was there? Was it normal for them to share their mating partners with other members of his species?
I’d heard plenty of stories about other cultures where this was the case and it made me relieved there were few others like them in this part of the prison.
“What is it?” I said.
“I’m not sure,” Egara said.
He approached the corner post of the bed, gripped it in his hands, held it steady, and wrenched it free.
He did it with the confidence of someone who knew it would give. It clued me in to the fact he’d had to do this more than once. He gripped it tightly in one of his giant hands and stood with his back to the wall beside the cell door.
The shouts outside grew louder, rising into a crescendo as heavy footsteps sprinted down the hallways and something clashed, banging and loud.
“Get down,” he said, waving a hand at me.
I did as he asked and threw the blanket over my head.
Why did I have to get down? I wondered. Why did he even have to check outside?
The door slid open and the noises rushed into the tiny cell.
The siren was unbearably loud. The klaxon wailed high and low, rising and falling like an incoming tide. Between those cacophonous wailing groans and the screaming and yelling and baying for blood of the other prisoners, I was terrified.
The sounds cut out as the cell door slid shut again.
“What’s going on?” I said, poking my head over the blankets.
I was shocked to find I was alone.
I peered at the wardrobe in the corner. There was no way Egara could hide in there. He wouldn’t fit for a start. Neither could he fit his enormous bulk under the bed or crouch at the foot of the bed without me seeing him there.
He must have gone.
And left me alone.
There were other prisoners out there.
Loud and boisterous and, most of all, dangerous.
And he left me alone.
What if they were to come in? What if he’d gone out there on purpose to sell me to those creeps?
I tried to calm down and tell myself he wouldn’t do something like that.
Why would he?
But he was a pirate, wasn’t he? There was no telling what those kinds of people were capable of.
