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“How would she have known that your sire would offer you the job?” she asked.
“I don’t know. But it’s said that stabhorns have a unique connection to the universe. They know what will happen before it does. And, of course, they’re able to find soulmates. It must be part of that magical skill.”
“Magic?” she repeated, sounding even more doubtful.
“A token word for anything that cannot yet be explained by science.” I stopped when I noticed I sounded like my sire. He would say that when I was still a youngling and believed in the fairy tales the nanny told me.
“It still seems far-fetched to me, but I’m not a stabhorn expert. Is there a way to ask her? I’ve been wondering how much she understands. How clever are stabhorns?”
“They are more intelligent than most people assume,” I explained. “I have the suspicion that they purposely make us underestimate them. They’re not just mere beasts. They have a societal structure, they have learned behaviour that gets passed down through generations, they have a sort of language.”
“Language?” Tara gasped. “Does that mean you can talk to them?”
“No, so far, nobody has been able to add their language to our translation implants. But if someone ever figures it out, I will add it to your implant immediately.”
I realised too late that I’d never told her about the implant. Klat.
Lesson 10: Redemption for Rebels
Tara
Just when I’d started to trust him again, he had to destroy everything.
“Implant?” I snapped. “Are you saying you put an implant in me?!”
He had the decency to look guilty.
“I thought I’d mentioned it. When I first brought you on board, I gave you a full medical screening to make sure the beaming hadn’t harmed you. It seemed a good opportunity to fit you with a translation implant and to remove the foreign body from your uterus.”
Foreign body… he hadn’t. Surely, he hadn’t.
“You. Removed. My. IUD?!” I was screaming, but I didn’t care. “How dare you!”
Bruin looked crestfallen. “IUD? Was it important? I thought it was harmful. I promise I wouldn’t have removed it otherwise. Are you alright without it? Will you survive?”
Panic slurred his words.
In any other situation, I would have found it adorable, amusing even. But he’d removed my contraception without asking me. That went too far. I felt violated. I’d thought I was in control of my body, yet he’d shown me that I wasn’t.
“Please, tell me,” Bruin begged. “Are you in danger?”
No, but he was. I was about ready to murder him. Except that would have taken my moral high ground.
For a moment, I was tempted to let him believe I was dying. That would serve him right.
“An IUD is a contraceptive implant,” I snapped. “It stops me from getting pregnant. I suppose you don’t have things like that. You kidnap women and breed them until they can’t pop out any more babies.”
He stared at me in shock, but then fierce determination took over his features. “I would never do that,” he said sternly. “And we do have contraception, just not this… primitive.”
Primitive. I wanted to strangle him. Then push the implant up his dick. That should hurt. If he even had one. My gaze wandered to his crotch before I could stop myself. There was a bulge pressing against his black trousers, but that could have been anything. He was an alien, as he’d just proved once more.
“Put it back in,” I demanded.
“Of course. I will see if the medpod can return your implant to where it was before. Alternatively, I can get you a Xerven implant. It is much smaller and won’t hurt at all.”
I didn’t think I could trust that after all this.
“I want my implant. My coil. Sterilised, obviously.”
