Krase by Aurelia Skye

Author:Aurelia Skye [Skye, Aurelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amourisa Press
Published: 2019-06-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

The human continued to chatter, which was both soothing and mildly irritating. She had a sweet voice that Krase enjoyed hearing, but it was also distracting him from the mission at hand. He probably should’ve sent her on her way instead of allowing her to come along to search for Naspar, but she had transportation.

He couldn’t take one of the skimmers from Transport 1187 and expect to remain inconspicuous as he zoomed around on it. It was too obviously different from the type of vehicles they used, which mostly depended on fossil fuels. Earth was certainly primitive, but not so primitive that they could slide by unobtrusively and blend with the population on a skimmer that went faster than the average Earth airplane.

Blending in. That reminded him…

He turned slightly in his seat, angling his wrist comm at her. She let out a startled yelp when the light flashed to scan her.

“What are you doing?” She looked away from the road to ask him, which caused the vehicle to swerve.

“Keep your gaze ahead of you, woman, before you get us killed. I’m simply scanning your vital signs to replicate them.” As he spoke, he bent his head and pressed the button that brought up the control panel. He used it to modify his output of life signs to be similar in temperature and heartrate to Olivia’s. Then he spent a few minutes sending out messages to the others to modify their life signs to match, so any scanning technology would have a harder time picking them up amid the billions of human life signs.

“You could’ve warned me,” she muttered under her breath when he lifted his head.

He shrugged. “It didn’t occur to me. I wasn’t violating you in any fashion.”

She sighed heavily, but then she nodded. “Yeah, I guess not, but I was still startled to have that light thing scanning me.” She looked at him again for a moment, eyes narrowed. “Just how thorough is that scan?”

He arched a brow. “How do you mean?”

“Did you see beneath my clothes?” She sounded incensed at the idea, and yet not completely. He was certain there was a gleam of interest in her eyes, though they thankfully remained focused on the road ahead of them.

He chuckled. “It can scan to the molecular level.”

She shifted, looking uneasy. “Did you store my DNA?”

“I could, but I have no reason to.”

She let out a deep breath that sounded like she’d been holding it for a few seconds. “Maybe it’s paranoid, but I really don’t want my DNA saved in your alien databanks. I don’t want clones of me appearing across the galaxy.”

He let out a deep belly chuckle. “There only a few species in the Coalition who use cloning technology. Most species are more than capable of reproducing at a rate that’s exponential without the need to inflate numbers via cloning. That’s why the Reproductive Board is ever-growing.” He didn’t agree with regulating the reproduction of member planets, and he wasn’t alone, but he knew

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