Alien Creep by Skye Calista

Author:Skye, Calista
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

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- Xan'tor -

“I see,” I respond lamely. “You have a mission.”

Mila steps away from me and gingerly wipes tears from her red-rimmed eyes. “I don't know. I'm just one person, I can't make much difference. But I will do what I can. After I find out about Emma.”

I lean over and push the lightspeed lever to take us back to base. “One person can make a surprisingly big difference. It depends on how determined you are and what tools you have.”

“Maybe,” she says. “I'd be happy to just see my sister again. If there's anything to be seen. Sorry, it all became too much. Anyway. How do you prepare food here?” She opens a locker, and has to quickly step back as an ion grenade falls out.

“That's the armory locker,” I explain and show her the nutrition console instead. She gets busy with it.

Sitting back down at the controls, I take her in and admire her female form, as usual. But now I also admire something else. She has real purpose.

As a mercenary, I don't usually care much about the outcome of the wars and invasions I'm in, except that I prefer to win them. If it ends with the enslavement of an entire species, it doesn't matter a lot. I may find it distasteful, but it's such a common thing to happen that nobody bats an eyelid. Mostly, the invaders leave the conquered alone and don't harass them too much.

But to Mila, this is deadly serious. It gives her purpose. And that gives her a determination that I now realize shines through everything she does. She came to the Bululg mothership, not because she didn't understand the danger, but because she had a good reason for going there. She was willing to take that risk. The way someone would if they really wanted something important.

It's not just female fancy and a fleeting desire. No, she's deadly serious. And her being female has nothing to do with it. She can be effective anyway.

The realization shakes me. I never thought I'd see anything like that outside of my own warrior clan.

Is Earth special? she asked me. I now wonder if it might be. Because how many others like her are there on that planet?

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