Taking Their Human: Monrok Warriors 1 by Aubrey Cara

Author:Aubrey Cara [Cara, Aubrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-07T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

ALLYSON

Swimming in and out of consciousness, for a time I forget where I am and what’s been happening. It all comes back to me when I wake. The aliens. Kaihan. The ship. Cal and Kein. The escape. I’m swamped with lethargy. I can’t move. I try to call out, but my words get stuck in my dry throat.

Kein must hear my choking. He’s over me, making soothing sounds and brings something to my lips. He helps me sit up and drink a cool liquid. I cringe at the bitter flavor, but Kein presses me to drink more.

“Are you back with me, zepka?” he asks. giving me an assessing look.

I shrug, my head still fuzzy. “Where are we?” It’s obvious we’re in a spacecraft of some kind. I have an IV in my arm. “What happened?”

Kein explains as he detaches the tube from my arm. We have escaped the Zapex and Cal stayed behind to ensure we were not followed. I can tell from Kein’s expression he is not at all happy with Cal’s decision to stay behind.

I lift a comforting hand to his cheek. “He will follow.”

“You know this, do you?”

I nod. “He is Monrok.” Isn’t that’s Cal’s explanation for everything?

Kein’s lips pull up before he turns somber once again. “Unfortunately, he will also have to find us on a different planet from the one we agreed upon, without the aid of tracking devices to follow.”

“What do you mean?”

A sleek panel on his right arm opens, and a hologram of a shining blue jewel appears. I lift my hand, and my fingers trail through the image. I’m not sure what I’m more amazed by, the panel in his otherwise seamless arm or the hologram. The arm thing definitely.

“This is a tash stone,” he explains. “These stones are used to power just about everything in our galaxy. It is what powers this vessel we are on. Ours…” A picture of a smaller stone with a much dimmer light appears. “Ours has been depleted.” The hologram disappears and his robo arm seals up, appearing to be a normal human arm once again. “It is my fault. I did not ensure the ship had a sufficient energy stone before our escape.”

I shrug in a “shit happens” kind of way. “You were kind of busy starting an uprising.” Taking his arm, I run my fingers over where the opening was. “It feels like flesh and bone. How is that possible?”

He lifts a brow at me, and his shrug is very pointedly human. “I am Monrok.”

I smile. I guess I had that one coming. “How long have I been out?” I ask trying to get up.

Kein assists me as I wobble on my weak legs. “A little over two cycles.” At my questioning look, he says, “Around three Earth days. The Jun’pn galaxy has thirty-two planets habitable and one hundred and twenty-eight different sentient species. Each planet has different cycles, or as human know them, days. But all in the Jun’pn Galactic Unity go by the same time measurements.

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