She smiled up at him. “Good plan.”
They exited the lift and made their way down to his quarters. As they reached the door and LemAN entered the secure code to open it, his comm link went off. He sighed as he answered it.
“This is Commander LemAN. No, I’ll give them an update myself. Meet me in my ready room in five minutes.” He ended communications.
“You have to go?”
“I’m so sorry, Teagan. Prime Commander KydEL is requesting that I update him on the situation with the Morinians. Then I have to update my second commander on what we’re doing and I need to make sure those satellite dishes are properly installed on the other transport.”
“Right, you have a lot to do. Will you be back for Evening Meal?”
He frowned. “I’m not sure. I didn’t even think about you missing the Midday Meal.”
“It’s okay. I can order something to be delivered.”
He leaned down and kissed her. “I’ll come as soon as I can but don’t wait on me if you are hungry.”
She watched him walk away and disappear in the lift. After closing the door behind her, she looked around the room. Teagan was going to get bored quickly if she didn’t find something else to do. She walked over to the small table and picked up her digital tablet. Pulling up her program, she entered the code to modify it. She had come up with an idea and wasn’t sure it would work, but there was only one way to find out.
*****
LemAN ended communications with Katieran Prime Commander KydEL. He had not been available during the first communications with the leaders and LemAN wanted to follow up with him on the situation. He turned to look at his second commander, also his friend.
“You look like you have a question, BorIS.”
“You’re going to use the Morinians to draw out the Morins. That could be extremely dangerous considering that we have no idea if there are more Morin transports out there and the Morinians have no way to protect themselves.”
“I know it’s a risk. The Morinian leader understands this. No matter what action we take, the Morins are going to be watching and waiting to make their move. The safest thing for everyone involved is to get them to follow us through the wormhole. Prime Commander KydEL is going to have their transports waiting on the other side but hiding to a certain degree so that they are undetected. Once there, the Morin transport will be outnumbered and stand no chance against our forces.”
“It just doesn’t sit well to have females and young put at risk in order to draw out the enemy.”
“I would offer to have the Morinians placed on our transport and have a team of our own take their place, but the Morinian commander and leader are distrustful of us. I do not believe they would agree to that. They have not committed fully to the temporary relocation on the Colonial Planet.”
“I don’t blame them for being distrustful. Males who should have sought to protect and care for them betrayed them and hunt them like they are nothing more than animals.”
LemAN nodded in agreement. “The Morins have truly betrayed every law and belief they once held. The comparison between the Morins and Morinians is so stark and different you would never think they were related. From my interactions with them, the Morinians are more similar to Katierans.”
“That should help them assimilate.”
“If they agree to assimilate.”
“They won’t have a choice. If their own population is dying off like ours had been, they will need to mix their genetics with a source that has not been tainted by the virus,” BorIS noted.
“I had not thought of that.” LemAN had assumed that after a while the Morinians and Katierans would eventually join.
“I’m not a medic so it’s hard for me to know the facts, but it would only make sense.”
If the Morinians did not find a species they could reproduce with, they would eventually die off. His people had been on the road to extinction before they found the Earth females. The planet Earth was in bad shape and soon would not be able to sustain life if their scientists didn’t do something to help rebuild the natural resources.
LemAN rubbed his chin thoughtfully. “We’ve transported many Earth females and now the Earth World Government is demanding that we relocate families and then the males. What if we move most of the unmated males to the planet with the Morinians?”
“Are they compatible? What are the males like? I’ve never met human males before but assumed that they were weak and useless if they allowed their females to be taken away by aliens.” BorIS looked disgusted by the thought.
“Their people were desperate, BorIS. They agreed to let us offer relocation but it would be their people’s choice. The females that came volunteered and if they hadn’t, we would not have hope now that our species will continue on and prosper. Per the agreement, we will have to relocate the males eventually.”
“I just don’t trust them, but I guess if we can put them together with the Morinians it could solve many issues we have with helping the Morinians and with finding a home for the Earth males.”
“Well, the first thing we have to do is find a suitable planet for the Morinians. While we are doing that I will check with the medics to make sure that the Earth males will be compatible. Then I have to discuss this with the Morinian council. They may be opposed to the idea of mixing with alien DNA.”
