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you people doing?” Inga said in English.   “You just come out here and pick fucking berries?   Frolic about all day?”
    “I want an alien husband,” the younger adult woman said.   “How do I sign up?”
    “Me too,” Jules said.
    “What are they saying?” Nayjoor said to Elentinus.
    “No we don’t fucking frolic around all day,” the lanky brunette said to Inga.   “We work our asstistas off.”
    “You’re too young to marry anyone, Jules!”
    “Be silent!   All of you!” Whore said in English.
    The women gawked at him.   Jules sneered.
    “How dare you all chatter about like fools before your ruler, Lord Elentinus.   Collars can be affixed to your throats easily enough.   Perhaps examples need to be made of you.”
    Jules’ sneer evaporated.   I hated the fear I saw in their eyes.   Of course they knew what he was talking about.   This place was still far from my ideal.
    The older of the two adult women touched her throat.   She spoke through burgeoning tears.   “I’m pregnant.”
    Whore scoffed.   “You think that will spare you?”
    “Stop it, Hor-Denay!”   I strode out in front of him.   “No one’s getting shocked, for God’s sake.”
    “That’s not for you to—“
    “Hor!” Elentinus said.
    Whore withdrew to the back of the group.
    “I’m sorry about that,” I said to the women.   “That’s his asshole servant, don’t even pay attention to him.   Lord Elentinus isn’t cruel like that.”
    The women’s postures slackened in relief.
    “Oh thank God.”
    The pregnant one took my hand.   “Thank you.”
    Nayjoor gave me a start by appearing beside me.   He grabbed a fistful of blackberries.
    “I don’t know what they’re saying, but I want to try these.”
    We all tried them.   I could see there were plenty more in the bushes around us.
    “Have you eaten these before?” Elentinus asked me in the Dak-Hiliah language.
    “Oh, sure.   We had them in my day.”
    “You speak their language?” Jules said.
    I nodded.
    “I can learn their language, too,” the younger adult said.   “So how do I get on the wife list?”
    “You want to trade with me?” Inga said.   “Fucking fine.”
    The woman looked at Nayjoor and shrugged.   “I’ve seen worse.”
    My brow rose.
    “You want to be treated like a slave and get shocked every fucking day?   Huh?”
    Damn it, Inga.
    The woman’s lip curled.   “Ew, no.”
    Elentinus placed his arm around my waist.   “We should continue with our tour, my darling.”
    “I’ll take a husband like him, then.   Any of those around?”
    I smiled.   “This one’s mine.”
    Jules giggled.
    “She seems happy enough.”   The younger adult gestured to me while speaking to Inga.
    “Psh.”   Inga turned her back to them.
    We went back to the road toward the barracks.   The Defenders flanked us, four on each side.  
    “Did you hear that woman?” I said to Elentinus.   “Why don’t you get some wives from the colony?”
    “We promised to only take wives from the past so Earth’s population could recover.   It was part of the surrender agreement.”
    I frowned.   (Nayjoor was huffing and puffing as he walked behind me).
    “It does seem like a missed opportunity,” Elentinus said.   “The women outnumber the men by a considerable margin here.   The male population had already been depleted during the war with us before the Instajants invaded.”
    “Can you…revise the surrender agreement?”
    Elentinus made a sinister smile.   “I can do whatever I wish, Maritza.”
    I pursed my lips.
    “The reason I hesitate is because we want other worlds to know we abide by our surrender agreements.   They must feel able to submit to us without any uncertainty.   Otherwise it could prolong fruitless resistance.”
    “Hm, yeah.   Wouldn’t want that.”
    He gave me a sideways hug.
    I saw there were some people and two Defenders waiting for us where the road entered the complex.   As we drew nearer I