Dakkan's Match: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance (Mitran Warlord Protectors Book 3) by Ella Blake

Author:Ella Blake [Blake, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

Dakkan

Ilooked at Sabine at the same moment she looked at me. “Young ones?”

Lukan smiled enigmatically and picked up a bowl. He ladled some of whatever was in the pot into it. “The soup is warm,” he said. “It’s very good, if I do say so. I’m curious what you think of the marinade.”

I looked down at the bowl he put in my hands. I was hungry, but not for food at the moment. And for once, not for Sabine. I wanted information. “Who are the young ones, Lukan?”

He shook his head. “This place appears to be a nursery for a certain species of alien. I’m not going to be able to give you more information. I simply don’t have it. The mechanical beasts are their guardians. Their only purpose is to keep them safe from potential threats. That would be why you were attacked.”

“Why haven’t they continued to attack?”

“You eliminated one, didn’t you?” Lukan tipped the bowl towards his lips and took a deep drink. “You’ve really got to try the soup.”

I did so to be polite. It was actually delicious. Then again, most Mitran males were excellent cooks. At least the ones at my Thail were. “So they gave up after we killed one?”

“There are only a certain number of them, you see. It stands to reason they can’t afford to lose too many. There are no replacements. Not as long as I’ve been here, anyway. So the fact that you defeated one, put the rest into observation mode.” He waved a hand. “I’ve seen it before. Well, with me.”

“Are you saying they try to kill everyone who comes in here?”

“Oh, yes.” Lukan drank soup from the bowl. “Usually, they succeed. I can’t speak for everyone who has found themselves trapped here, but the majority are injured or disoriented and the guardians easily dispatch them. But you survived, so now you’re being observed.”

“Observed for what?” Sabine asked.

“The likelihood of being a threat to the young ones.” Lukan refilled his bowl. “I live because I was deemed not a threat. They leave me alone, now. If you’re lucky, they will leave you alone, too.”

“Okay, back up.” Sabine held up a hand and closed her eyes. “Tell us more about these young ones, please. Have you seen them?”

“Yes. They’re…hard to explain without seeing them for yourself. Their species uses this planet as a nursery. That’s my theory. I have searched every part of this place and that’s the only explanation that makes sense.

“There is a heart of this—forgive me, I call this place my Thrail now, as I have no other word for it—this Thrail. I found it once and witnessed creatures unlike any I have ever seen before. I received a communication in my mind that warned me to stay away from the young ones and leave them alone. If I did that, I would be permitted to live.” Lukan’s eyes were sad as he gazed into the fire. “What else could I do but agree? Whatever the beings I saw were, they were clearly children.

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