First Contact Captives by Enid Titan

Author:Enid Titan [Titan, Enid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Enid Titan Romance

Eight

THE RETURN

Kronos

I strode onto the bridge where my siblings shared a joint command shift.

“Ready room, Kronos,” Thalassa commanded, striding out of the Captain’s chair with her straight-necked command gait. The doors closed behind us and I smiled. My sister didn’t return my affections. Thalassa had never been particularly forthcoming with emotions.

<<You seem tense, sister.>>

<<I am tense. You’ve brought an alien on board and you plan to bring her to the home world without any warning.>>

<<It wasn’t my intention to upset you.>>

<<Our borders may be open, but our culture isn’t. I just don’t want you to get hurt. Or her for that matter.>>

<<You don’t resent her?>>

<<Why should I?>>

<<You took the vaccine along with the other females, against fertility.>>

<<Because I refused the burden of fertility doesn’t mean this poor soul should want the same.>>

<<Very well.>>

<<You didn’t come all the way to the bridge to discuss my womb.>>

Thalassa was still a bit agitated, but she hid her reasons why from me well.

“I came to find out how far we are from the Prince.”

“We’re close.”

“Something’s wrong.”

“Verbal communication is far too clumsy,” she complained, ignoring my question again.

“Thalassa, I outrank you. So answer me.”

“Fine. We’ve run into a problem with the Taureans.”

“Our allies?”

“Some of them are. But when the senate split in two, a small portion formed the Taurean confederacy. Since you’ve been gone, they’ve been attacking smaller ships and coordinating guerrilla attacks on larger vessels.”

“Have you spotted any on sensors?”

“Unfortunately, yes. We’re expected to clash with them in the next twelve hours.”

“Were you planning on telling me?”

“Our orders were not to keep you informed, but to smother this attack quickly.”

“I still outrank you, Thalassa.”

“You do, but the Prince considers you a person of honor for your mission. We’ve transmitted all your data to him and he’s impressed with the detail.”

“The mission was a failure,” I admitted, the admission hurting me more than I expected.

“There was nothing about it that was a failure. You’ve influenced politics already. The Prince is even having a meeting with the Emperor.”

“The emperor and his wife haven’t come out of meditation in over a hundred years.”

“I know. And now, because of you, Devor ushers in a new age.”

<<You seem jealous, sister.>>

<<Not very. But how can either of us ever live up to what you’ve accomplished, Kronos?>>

<<Do not try.>>

Thalassa rolled her eyes.

“Try to relax. Make preparations with the home world. If there’s a conflict with the confederacy, we’ll handle it.”

“I’d relax more if I could be at the helm,” I responded.

“Sorry, Prince’s command, my brother.”

I grunted in response and then left my sister. Morpheus sought her permission to exit the bridge. As children, Thalassa and I suffered greater comparison than myself and Morpheus. He was never as quick as I was, but he made up for it with his impressive height — two inches taller than me — and his prowess for brute force in battle.

He’d kept his battle scars from fights with the ice bears. Large claw marks covered both of his shoulders. He wore his hair shaggy and waist length with braids across the front of his head, pinning most of the hair out of his face.

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