Alien Captive by Lee Savino & Golden Angel

Author:Lee Savino & Golden Angel [Savino, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-29T05:00:00+00:00

11

Gavrill

Arriving on the bridge, I relieve Corin of duty, extremely thankful that Bogdan is not on duty and hopefully knows nothing of my lateness. If I am truly lucky, he will never learn of it. My second is the only one capable of reprimanding me, and he would be correct to.

Fortunately, Corin does not know why I am late and—unlike Bogdan—does not demand an explanation. In many ways, Bogdan is more like a sibling to me than an underling; other than my Tribute, there are none other in our fleet who would challenge me the way he does. I doubt he would appreciate the comparison, although my Tribute might.

Dawn.

Her name echoes through my mind even as I read through Corin's shift log.

Medik used her name. So did Arkdhem. I used it when I was pleasuring her... perhaps I should do so more often. She did ask it of me in the beginning, I remember. While her name does not give me the same visceral satisfaction as calling her my Tribute, there is something intimate about it.

My Dawn.

I will think on it.

But for now... I force myself to focus on the readout Corin left behind. It doesn't make any sense.

Frowning, I look up at Corin, who has been standing off to the side waiting for me to read his log, rather than quitting the bridge. Obviously, he anticipated I would want to speak of the strange events he reported. I could feel the crew glancing at us from the corners of their eyes, probably waiting for my reaction. They've been on duty for a while, although not as long as Corin—it would not do to have the entire bridge crew changing shift all at the same time—so they are well aware of the anomalies as well.

"They aren't attacking at all?" I ask, completely baffled by this change in Vgotha tactics.

They have never had compunction in the past about attacking when they know they have a chance of winning. The only reason the ship we'd been pursuing had fled without a fight had been because it was outgunned and engaging with us would have been a suicide mission. What I was seeing here was completely different. One of the scouts reported that he practically ran into one of their advance guard—which meant that he was hopelessly outclassed and should be dead. Instead, he'd been allowed to slip away. The tone of his report sounded as confused as I felt.

"No, High Commander," Corin says, shaking his head. "All the reports are the same. The scouts have become more and more reckless, almost as if they're daring the Vgothas to come after them and yet... nothing other than sightings."

"What are they up to?" I murmur, scrolling through the readout, my disturbance growing.

New tactics that make no sense are far more concerning than even a fully armed armada. Changes that cannot be anticipated, for reasons unknown, can do far more damage than a frontal attack, even by a larger force.

"I thought about hailing you, but I did not know what to say.

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