Chapter Fourteen
Glump…
I carefully added the ammonium nitrate to the mixture. One oops and this ship would be space debris.
“Are you the one called Lexi?”
I looked up and froze. An executioner hovered in front of me. Panic cramped my stomach. Why hadn’t I sensed him? “Yes, I’m Lexi.”
“Where is Glump?”
I frowned as a barrage of images spun through my mind. Shit! My freaky mind meld ability had kicked in again. This executioner whose name was Blorp for God’s sake, was in cahoots with Ziyn. I flashed Kaelen my discovery and played dumb. “Who?”
“Glump.” The executioner stuck a tentacle in my ammonium nitrate mixture and tasted it. “Very tasty.” He stuck another tentacle into the mixture.
I smacked his tentacle. “Stop that, and I don’t know who this Glump is.”
An image of Glump formed in my mind. “Oh, you mean Wiggles.”
“Yes.”
I shrugged. “Dunno.” And I didn’t. His bits and pieces were floating about somewhere in the vastness of space.
“Keep him distracted,” Kaelen commanded on our private link.
“Okey-dokey.”
The executioner moved closer. “When we pursued Ziyn he was still on this ship.”
“Did you catch Ziyn?”
“We did not.”
“I bet Qa’a is pissed. Shouldn’t you be out looking for her? That is your job, isn’t it?” More images poured into my mind. Getting him angry was working. I now knew Ziyn was hiding on a moon called Zog.
A tentacle grabbed my shirt and yanked me above the table. “I do not answer to pitiful humans. Where is Glump? His ability to teleport had been damaged. He could not have left this ship.”
“If he were still here, don’t you think he would have eaten me by now? But hey, you’re welcome to look for him.” I pried at his tentacle. “Put me down.”
A mouthful of jagged white teeth appeared in the executioner’s cowl. “You will tell me where he is, or I will eat you.”
I grimaced. His breath smelled like rotten eggs. “While you guys were fighting, I saw several executioners eat shapeshifters. Why don’t you talk to your buddies?”
“You lie.” His mouth grew bigger and bigger.
“Stop! Blorp!” Kaelen commanded.
The executioner dropped me on the floor and spun to face the Battle Commander.
I blew out a relieved breath and blinked. There was a black kitten perched on Kaelen’s shoulder. My eyebrows rose. That was no kitten. “Ziyn is hiding on a moon called Zog, Qa’a.”
Poof! The kitten transformed into a gigantic mouth that promptly ate Blorp.
Shit! That was something you didn’t see every day.
The mouth burped loudly and vanished.
Kaelen hugged me tightly. “Life with you will never be boring.”