"What do you an you've lost contact with Pax and Akash?" Fal all but shrieked as the Squadron Leader revealed the bad news.
They had supposedly lost contact with the two while we were out in the gacity, and there had been no success in either tracing them or getting their signal back online. The only possible explanation-
"They must have been captured by Clan Pren if that is who you believe to be behind this ss," Belana said. "But try not to worry, Fal, we will be doing all we can to get your partner back. I promise you that."
It clearly hadn't been the right thing to say to the lizard-like alien. Their fangs bared off their own accord and their usually grey eyes had a flicker of red fla to them.
"Try not to worry?" They seethed, "My bonded mate is sowhere out there, completely alone, and you want to try not to worry? You would never understand!"
Before anyone could stop them, Fal had stord out of the room and slamd the door. I couldn't grasp the depth of the emotions they must be feeling, I doubted that anyone other than another Lyrin pair would be able to understand that, but I felt I could understand to a degree at least. If anyone had taken soone that I cared about, there wouldn't be a force in the galaxy that would be able to stop from trying to hunt them down.
I even felt a little bit uneasy about Akash being taken, and he had spent the whole ti we'd known one another berating to my face.
"Yr'Arl, please go after Fal, make sure they don't do anything that they will regret later on," Belana ordered.
Yr'Arl gave a nod and left the room just as swiftly as Fal had. It felt good to know that Yr'Arl was going after Fal, I was sure that they were planning to do sothing stupid like storming Clan Pren's stronghold, wherever that may have been, by themselves. That wouldn't have been a smart move in the slightest.
I fought against my instincts to subrge BB into our Synchro mode so I could bring up my corona shield. I had the feeling that the mont I unleashed any amount of manna Belana would be on before I could even think about reacting.
"And then there is your propensity for flashy shows of manna use," Belana continued, "You sohow tread the line of incredible power and incredible lack of experience. It's almost as if you woke up yesterday with your abilities for the first ti. No human has ever shown your propensity for magic. I find myself asking just what are you, really?"
It was a rhetorical question, I knew it was, so when he turned his needling gaze to my own eyes I just sat there and took it.
"I'm going to keep my eye on you, Jacob Lyre. Your record is squeaky clean, everything's there. But nothing about you adds up, nothing at all," The Squadron Leader sighed and leaned back in his chair.
"Nevertheless, regroup with Fal and Yr'Arl. This mission has quickly gone to pot, your next task will be hunting down Clan Pren and rescuing Pax and Akash. Fail, and I'll be holding you responsible for all of their deaths."
"Yes sir," I replied shortly. I tried and failed to keep the heat out of my tone, which the Squadron Leader could only grin at. He knew he had managed to worm his way under my skin.
I left the room and gave myself a mont to lean against the wall and just breathe.
I didn't know what these people would do to if they found out that, while I was human, I wasn't technically a human from their world. But sothing inside of told that I needed to keep the fact a secret, and it wasn't just BB.
Sothing told that, if the humans of this universe discovered that there was another Earth in another Sol system filled with another completely different breed of humanity they wouldn't ever stop until they ripped it up into tiny little pieces.
I couldn't afford for that to happen. Not now, not ever.
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