Chapter 6 #3
He tugged me along and I was forced to look away from one of the windows as we left his suite.
We walked down a hall into a clear glass elevator on the exterior of the building.
The doors closed and I looked out at the dizzying view down below.
We were so high up and I took a step away from it just to move closer to the door in a protective measure.
“You don’t particularly like heights, do you?” Talyn asked.
“I’ve climbed trees in the past and been fine, but this is a bit different,” I admitted, and he chuckled softly.
“Indeed.”
“Where are we going?” I pressed. He seemed to be in a light mood. I’d take advantage of that as much as I could. As soon as I asked the question though, his face darkened considerably.
“You and I are going to deal with the problem of the human renegades together,” he responded, and I stiffened visibly.
“What does that mean?” I asked with growing concern. His eyes had turned almost black, the violet of his irises barely noticeable anymore. I took a step away from him, but there wasn’t anywhere to go inside the elevator.
“Your people are the ones who are attacking at my borders, aren’t they?”
I didn’t answer right away, and he grasped my arm, tossing me against the wall so that I was forced to catch myself with my palms. He flipped up the back of my dress, baring my bottom with ease. I was never more aware of the fact that I wasn’t wearing panties until that moment.
He spanked me viciously hard several times and when he wasn’t pleased with that, he kicked my legs open and slapped my pussy. I cried out and tried to close my legs so I could protect myself, but he didn’t let me. He gripped me with his palm, squeezing lightly.
“Answer my question, Raiza,” he demanded.
“Yes!” I squeaked.
“Your people have been killing mine, haven’t they?” he pressed.
“They have,” I whispered.
He released my pussy just as the doors slid open.
“We’re going to deal with it together. By the end of the day, they will no longer be a problem,” he replied, and a chilly shiver of fear raced down my spine.
He readjusted my dress to cover my bottom.
Then he took my upper arm and forcibly led me out of the elevator.
The stinging across my bottom and my pussy flared red hot with each step and I was left with the mortifying realization that all of that had made me very wet despite all the times I’d come since I’d been taken into his captivity.
I couldn’t worry about my pleasure though, not now. I searched his face for any hint of what he had planned, but I could read nothing about his intentions.
Did he mean to kill them? Or capture them?
“What are you going to do?” I asked anxiously.
He didn’t answer my question and that left me feeling more than a little uneasy. We passed several other alien soldiers along the way, and they stopped as we walked by, bowing their heads with respect. His boots clipped along on the smooth tile with intention, and no one made any move to stop us.
The interior of the building reminded me of what a spaceship might look like.
The walls were smoothened metal triangular plates.
Some of them were a cream color, others black and others blue or dark gray.
I wanted to reach out and run my fingers along the interior, but Talyn was in too much of a hurry for that.
We finally reached a room full of computer monitors. Moving pictures of different places across the world spanned across them all, so staggeringly clear that it almost felt like I could step out into another world through them.
There were some views of this city, or so I guessed. A few of them were centered on what looked like abandoned sites, but I guessed they were probably watching to see if there was any activity from the human revolutionaries or even something else.
I couldn’t be sure.
Talyn finally released my arm and I stood awkwardly by his side. He traced over the silver band on his wrist and a holographic screen appeared right in front of him.
“I want an update on the human forces in the north. Have they hit any new sites since the last report?” he asked.
“One about an hour ago, Commander. They took out the sentries stationed at the border. Each one was isolated and subsequently killed with a grenade of some kind,” one of the aliens answered.
His skin was lighter than Talyn’s, a more rose hue with scarlet striped undertones.
He glanced at me with curious interest when I’d first entered the room, but he quickly focused on his work and didn’t look at me again.
He didn’t seem particularly friendly. Absentmindedly, I fingered the silver collar at my throat.
Was I just the commander’s pet to him?
Another soldier changed the viewpoints of the monitors, moving through one camera after the next.
They started to look familiar. One particularly knobby tree caught my attention.
I’d spent many nights sleeping beneath it.
The moss was quite thick on the right side, almost as if it was a luxurious carpet.
It was something of a special little secret I had when I wanted to get a good night’s sleep after a long day.
I’d sneak out there sometimes in the middle of the night.
It was dangerously close to my people’s basecamp.
I glanced at Talyn and his soldiers. They seemed to be mapping out a route of some kind. They talked in hushed tones, and I couldn’t catch much of the details, but I caught enough to piece together that they were referencing various kinds of weapons and the best strategic sites to set them off.
“You don’t mean to kill them, do you?” I asked. The soldiers by Talyn’s side started, almost as if they were surprised that I could speak. Talyn glared back at me as he pressed his palms down on the table.
“I mean to deal with them in the manner that I see fit,” he answered.
Gone was the gentle alien that had pleasured and tenderly washed me in his shower. In his place was something akin to a monster. He turned back to his men without another word and the tense energy of the room gave me pause. I didn’t dare say anything else.
I wasn’t sure what kind of man would answer.
* * *
After about an hour, Talyn and his men had talked enough strategy and they began moving out. Talyn brought me along and he was so focused on his soldiers that I half expected to be locked in a cage and fetched later when he was good and ready to deal with me again.
Talyn had other ideas, however.
He tapped the blue gem at the base of my throat and the now familiar chain extended from it. He wound the handle end around his wrist with the same casual ease he might use to pick some object up off a table, and then he turned and walked, and the chain said come, and I came.
I didn’t stumble. I’d braced for it. But then I felt the pull register against my collar. It was gentle and certain and there was a tightening through my chest that I had no interest in looking into any further.
After a few paces, I noticed I was walking close enough to his side that the chain between us had gone slightly slack.
I hadn’t decided to do that. My feet had simply found the distance that required the least friction.
I’d found the distance where he didn’t need to tug, where the pull against my collar never came.
The distance that was easy.
It was the kind of thing a practical person did when they were a prisoner and wanted to conserve their dignity. Pure survival instinct. Nothing more.
I stared at the back of his head and tried to figure out what was going on in his mind.
I wasn’t even sure he could feel emotions like a human.
Sure, he had human components, but he was designed as the ultimate soldier, and in that maybe there wasn’t room for such things.
Could he hope for anything? Or love? Or even hate?
The last twenty-four hours had been a whirlwind for me and maybe I’d been looking at everything as if I was underwater.
I wasn’t his lover or anything like a wife. At the end of the day, I was his prisoner and that’s all I ever would be.
With an almost silent sigh, I followed him close enough so that he didn’t have to jerk the leash again.
My life wasn’t my own anymore and I would have to accept that, at least until an opportunity at escape finally presented itself.
It likely wouldn’t be today, but there would be some time in the future that he let his guard down and I’d be able to get away.
I’d look forward to that day.
At that point, I started focusing on my surroundings.
In the past, I’d been better than most at remembering paths through the forest or the layout of the streets in the old, abandoned parts of where I’d grown up.
Often, I would draw maps in the dirt for my comrades to follow.
I’d sketched them on old pieces of crumbling paper using mud as paint.
I’d always been one of the more resourceful people at my camp and I prided myself on it.
I set my sights on memorizing the path from his suite to the elevator, to the command room and down below. When we finally reached an underground hub of airships, I grinned a little knowing that I’d made the right choice to pay attention.
They were all the same type that Talyn had flown earlier.
I’d paid attention to the sequence of commands that he’d used to activate it before. He approached one of the larger ships and the shuffle of many feet behind me made me look back. There were at least a thousand of them.
My group was barely one hundred people, no more than that.
“Talyn. You don’t have to do this,” I blurted.
He froze for a brief second before yanking the chain hard enough to make me fall forward.
He perched his foot on the side of the ship and tossed me over his thigh.
Neither my hands nor my feet could reach the floor and when I tried to reach back to steady myself, he pinned them behind my back. He flipped up my dress and I stilled.