Noticing Jin’s interest, Gator patted a wall fondly.“First time seeing one of these beauties?”
No, actually, it wasn’t.
A honeycomb like this one and the danger its denizens posed was what first pushed Kira into using her burst.By that point, they’d lost half their division and were about to lose the city behind them.
Desperation made strange bedfellows when paired with necessity.
Needless to say, by the end of that day the honeycomb was no more, and Kira had become the Phoenix of legend.
“The Tsavitee used to drop them on planets where they wanted nothing to remain.”
That was because the lower forms inside were basically overgrown insects.Their desire to devour was all encompassing.
Nothing remained on a planet where a honeycomb fell.Not plants.Not animals.Certainly not humans.Only the natural mineral resources that were the Tsavitee’s main objective.
Jin would give the Tsavitee this.Their method was efficient.
If cruel.
“When this one and her sister discovered this place, they also found some of its horde still trapped in stasis.”
Maggie looked uncomfortable as Gator gestured to her.
“When we’re bored, we like to wake some of them up.Feed them a little something from our stable.The way they can strip a body down to bone.”Gator pretended to shiver.“It’s really something to see.”
You dumb fuck, Jin silently swore as he glanced at Maggie.
Human greed never failed to surprise him.
Maggie could have made a killing turning the honeycomb over to Centcom.Their scientists would have pissed themselves at the opportunity to study its contents.Especially if some of those contents were still alive and in stasis.Instead, she’d tried to make a quick buck by auctioning it to a pirate group.
Easy, untraceable money.
Except pirates had a habit of double-crossing people.Not to mention people who worked with them more often than not wound up dead.
As Maggie would likely find out soon.
Gator leaned down to tap Jin on the forehead several times.“Remember that, for if you want to cause trouble.”
Jin blinked as Gator straightened and jerked his head at Flame.
That was it?A simple warning?Jin had expected him to go somewhere else with that spiel.
“Throw them inside,” Gator ordered.
Flame pushed Jin toward one of the hexagonal openings to their left.Maggie was pushed in after him with the pirates tossing a still unconscious Arly in last.
“Be good,” Flame instructed as a low hum announced the forcefield’s return.
That wasn’t in Jin’s genetic makeup.
“I’m going to report to the bosses,” Gator tossed over his shoulder as he walked away.“Don’t go far.”
Flame waited until Gator was out of sight before turning to Jin.He waved a hand at the cell Jin was in.“Am I correct in assuming you have this under control?”
“What if I say no?”
Would Flame set aside his plans to snoop through Belladonna’s hideout?
