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I don’t bother fighting him. I’m exhausted. I stand and pad back to the one sleeping pod. Apparently we can’t both sleep at the same time unless we’re cuddling and that’s not happening. Even though my skin tingles when I think about lying next to him.
“Help me,” I whisper to myself as my eyes close and I finally drift off to the most peaceful sleep that I’ve had since I was taken.
“Oof!” I groan as something shifts violently and I find myself falling what feels forever until I thud into something hard.
I shake my head and groan, sitting up and rubbing my shoulder which is throbbing like a motherfucker.
Lights are going off all around me, the glaring white and red merging into a horror show of epic proportions. A blaring whoowhoo sound like a siren on a fire truck is blaring and I honestly don’t know how the hell I was sleeping through all this until I was thrown.
I stagger to my feet, holding onto my shoulder as I bump into the wall and put my palm on the panel. The door whooshes open and if possible, it gets even louder. I put my hands over my ears and stumble down the short hall to the control room.
“What the hell, Varnak? What is that noise? What’s going on?” I fall into the seat and groan.
His eyes are grim, his jaw clenched so tight I’m surprised he can speak at all. “Get buckled. We’ve had a malfunction.”
My heart drops all the way to my feet. “What does that mean? Malfunction sounds bad.”
His eye turn towards me and he grunts, “It is. Get buckled.”
I fumble with the buckle as he struggles with the controls and seems completely baffled. Nothing seems to stop the noise. And the sirens are even louder and more annoying.
He glances at me and fumbles with his own belt. “We need to brace for impact.”
When I glance out the front view I suck in a sharp breath as the brown and green and blue planet in front of us hurtles at us. “Oh, shit!”
I grab my belt and click it in place quickly. “Where are we?”
“I think it’s a planet called Merca 7. We’ve got minimal information about it. I can see that it’s got oxygen so we should be alright as far as that goes but I don’t have any other information.”
My head reels when I see the planet coming closer. The ship starts to shake and rattle as we hit the atmosphere and begin to burn on re-entry.
I close my eyes and grip the arms of the chair like my life depends on it. Because it just might.
Minutes pass and then I hear Varnak yell, “Brace, vistu, brace!”
My body’s thrown to the back and then jerked forward as the ship slams into the ground and goes airborne again, my stomach sinking and jumping with each bounce. Over and over until we finally land and everything around me goes silent.
“Are you alright, vistu?” His voice cracks and he growls under his breath. “Gods vrecking let go of me!”
I open my eyes and see him wrestling with the seatbelt and then pulling out a huge blade and slicing it wildly.
I giggle and his head comes up quickly, his silvery hair flying around his head and his eyes wild with emotion.
“I didn’t know you cared so much, Varnak.” My voice cracks and it feels like my ribs ache when I groan and attempt to move. “What the hell happened?”
He sighs and sits up straight as he stares at me. “I don’t know. I’ll have to check the data banks and see if they can tell me what the vreck just went on. It didn’t seem like anything was wrong and then all the alarms went off.”
I nod my head and it feels like it’s going to explode. I groan and hold my head with my hands. “Dammit, that hurts.”
He crawls over to me and his eyes study every single inch of me and that fire that barely stays banked around him picks up and smolders recklessly in my body.
“What hurts, vistu?”
“I don’t know. My chest and ribs hurt.”
“Okay. Just relax for a minute and let your body settle down. We’ve had some massive changes and I need to double-check some readings, which I’m not entirely sure are good readings.”
I lift my head and point out the front of the ship where it has cracked in two.
