Dominance And Dissent (Cyborg Space Exploration Book 3) by Cynthia Sax

Author:Cynthia Sax [Sax, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Once I finish this, we’ll escape.” Greer’s words didn’t even convince herself.

She sat on the floor of the cleansing chamber. The tiles were warm under her bare ass.

The portable shade she was crafting for Nibbler rested in her lap. She’d been fine-tuning the design since their last unsuccessful escape. The current version was its fifth permutation. The miljoonasuut had eaten the first four.

She was convinced this fabrication would work, was quite pleased with its feasibility. The covering cloth square was large enough to cast a shadow over Nibbler yet small enough to fit in his cage with him. One touch would activate the spring-like mechanism. That attached to his back and would lift the shade high enough that he wouldn’t eat it, yet remain low enough to be stable.

Nibbler appeared unimpressed with it. He scurried around the stone square he was restricted to. A larger piece of fabric protected him from the overhead lights.

She tossed him a piece of fruit. He gobbled it.

“It is comfortable here.” She threaded another piece of wire through the cloth, giving the fabric more structure. “We have nourishment and beverage, shelter. No one harms us.” Dissent showed her exquisite pleasure every rest cycle. Her toes curled. “But that could change in a heartbeat.”

Dissent could die…as her father had. That prospect filled her with sorrow.

“I shouldn’t become attached to him.” She touched the gun she’d set beside her, the gun he’d given her…to keep, the gun he had engraved with her name so no one could ever doubt it was hers. “He owns us, both of us. Some slaves believe they care for their masters but they don’t. Thinking that merely makes their servitude palpable for them.”

Nibbler rattled his exoskeleton.

She lobbed a nourishment bar in his direction. He chased it, devouring it in less than a heartbeat.

“You, however, I can care for.” She smiled at the baby creature.

Nibbler was her company during the sunlight shifts, and they’d formed a bond. He no longer tried to eat her. She fed him.

They were both confined, were both owned by Dissent. Although her cyborg claimed he wasn’t their master. She drifted her fingers over her beautiful gun. And he’d given her a weapon.

She’d never heard of a slave who possessed a gun.

“I should practice.” She set the portable shade aside. “I’ll finish this fabrication next planet rotation.” That was what she had said last planet rotation and the planet rotation before that. Thankfully, Nibbler didn’t understand the universal language and didn’t point that irregularity out to her. “Our cyborg will expect my shooting to have improved.”

It had done that. Her fingers curved around the gun’s handle. She now hit everything she aimed at. Pride expanded her chest. She rose to her feet, padded into the main chamber.

The targets remained on the wall. She lifted the gun, aimed, fired. The burst of energy struck exactly where she wanted it to strike.

A heady sense of power filled her.

“I’m a great shot, Nibbler.” She yelled that to the miljoonasuut. “I can defend both of us.

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