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You should know that sometimes the only way to fight a monster is to become one.
I, on the other hand, overthought everything. I worried, even in these moments of peace, what would happen when they ended and reality came crashing down again to destroy this happiness.
I climbed onto his lap, taking one of his clasper hands in mine as I lifted my other hand to stroke his facial plates. “I’m sorry, Thrax. About what they did to you.”
He pressed his face into my palm. “I am not.” His eyes met mine. “I would go through it all again, knowing you would be at the end of it.”
I smiled at him as I walked to meet him. “Let me guess. You were eating again.”
He nodded as I took his lower hand and tugged on it, guiding him towards the upholstered chair.
“It’s important to eat when the opportunity is there,” he said.
At least she wouldn’t be awake to watch me eat. I recalled her shudder of revulsion and the way she’d turned her back to me as if she couldn’t stand the sight of me.
I also recalled the unpleasant way her reaction had made me feel. She didn’t like my form as much as I liked hers, and that bothered me.
In the before-time, I couldn’t imagine having had any patience for such a fragile creature, yet now, I felt only an increased desire to protect and shelter her, and capture her every time she stumbled
“They were enemies.” His tone was flat, and I wasn’t sure if that was the translator, or if it was his actual emotion. “They were dangerous. They would have killed you.”
I shook my head. “But they didn’t. You don’t think that’s significant?”
He glanced around the tunnel. “Hesitation means death. This ‘empathize’ you speak of is a weakness.”
In my other hand, I grasped the bloodstained food wrapper, reluctant to let it go since it had been the gift of a dying alien. I wasn’t sure if the alien had been friend or foe, but it had given me this wrapper for a reason, and I wasn’t about to cast it aside until I could try to figure out why.