Eban's Command: Scifi Alien Abduction Romance (Science Fiction Alien Romance) (Survival Wars Book 2) Read Online Free PDF

not phrase it correctly. Please, will
you tell me your name? I wish to speak with you as equals.”
     
    Saffron stayed where she was, eyeing him warily. Her initial
impressions kept getting interrupted and fading away too rapidly for her to get
a good hold on him yet. Until she knew she could trust him, if that moment of
epiphany ever came about, it was best to just keep her distance. “Saffron,” she
replied.
     
    “Saffron,” Eban repeated, tasting the word. “What does it
mean?”
     
    She shrugged a little bit. “It’s just a spice. For cooking.”
     
    He looked a little puzzled about that, but didn’t push it.
“Saffron, will you hear my plea?”
     
    It was a plea, now. “I can’t promise anything.”
     
    “Nor do I ask you to,” he replied. “All I ask is that you
listen to what I have to say. My people do not have a home. We are up there,
above your sky, waiting in a ship which carries the only of us left anywhere.
Our home was destroyed by attackers who caught us unaware.”
     
    That part came out a bit stiffly, though she didn’t think it
was quite a lie. It sounded more like he was omitting something he felt was too
unsavory for the moment. That tempered a bit more of her enthusiasm but
something deep inside her was still tugging, urging her on to accept his offer
before she’d even heard everything.
     
    “Ever since then, we have just been wandering. We have a
very specific low-gravity requirement but not much else, or I would have simply
brought us all down here to settle. Your planet is exactly what we are looking
for, but we would not be happy here. However, you are also what we have been
looking for.
     
    “If we find somewhere that is more suited to our needs, it
will be lacking in another. We need someone who knows plants. We need a
scientist who has expertise in areas which we are lacking. That would be you.”
     
    “But why me specifically?” she challenged, narrowing her
eyes and looking right back at him just as fiercely as he watched her. “There
are plenty of scientists around here for you to choose from.”
     
    “We learned your life and history from only a few hours of
observation. You are obviously vastly more important than any other scientist
that we have not heard of. And then there is the fact of your invention. You
know how to make plants grow quicker. That will be important for a struggling
remnant of a people such as us.”
     
    He had a point, but an easy way around all this suddenly
occurred to her. By this point, she had long since accepted the whole situation
and didn’t feel any weirdness discussing it like she would the weather. That
was just her way. “Why don’t I just tell you how to use the serum?” she
suggested. “Even better, I’ll show you how to make it. The formula I use to
make the plants grow faster, I mean.”
     
    Eban shook his head however, and she wasn’t sure whether her
disappointment and excitement was bigger. “We don’t need merely that. We need
someone who can show us how to work the earth. Someone who can perform tests in
the first place to let us know whether or not we might settle down at all. You
are all of the above and more. I am asking you to come with us. Please.”
     
    She hesitated. A path opened up before her, one of
indecision and longing. The one route was clearly-marked and bright all the way
down, a continuation of her fame and good fortunes. She could keep her house
and continue to work at the lands as the seasons went by, acquiring that horse
and those ducks she always wanted since there was a pond out there on her
property, too. It would be a shame to leave this all behind just as she was
beginning to enjoy it. Her father would like it. Clear-cut, relatively no
risks. Her fate was in her own hands.
     
    But, down that darkened side path, there was no knowing what
might await her. There was only knowing what wouldn’t: a steady life, a horse,
ducks, perhaps a family when she was ready. Perhaps that was the