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minutes of his history lesson, my mind
started clearing up and the fogginess left my brain. I remembered something he
said to Lancer before they left and it was really bugging me.
    “Commander, before Lancer and his team left, you said
something about fodder for the Ripper’s attacks? What did you mean?”
    “I was wondering if you were going to pick up on that. When
a ripper comes here, they are only looking for humans to change and bring back
to our planet to fight the war against us. While we came to a semi-peaceful
accord about 300 years ago, there are some factions within the ripper
communities who believe they should be the ones who control our planet and we
should leave it to them.
    “Somehow, they believe that they were the first to populate
our planet and the Sennafae were travelers who came there after they did. Most
don’t believe those lies. We have been taught that we were all one species in
the beginning and a plague came to our world and almost destroyed us all. We
lost about sixty-five percent of our population to this plague.
    “I believe it was something similar to your Black Plague.
    “And when the dust settled, some people who had been
infected healed. They became the rippers. And about thirty percent of the
Sennafae were immune to the plague and never got sick.”
    I sat there processing his story and then asked, “So the
rippers used to be Sennafae and they got sick but some naturally healed? Is
that why they drink blood?”
    “Yes and no. Yes, they got sick and healed, but on our
planet they look differently than they do here. There is something about your
atmosphere that changes their look and genetic make-up. That difference is what
causes their need for blood. I guess you could call the rippers here vampires
since your sun hurts them and they need blood. But back at home they rarely
need blood. In fact, most of us donate blood once a year and those stores
satisfy the needs of rippers back on the home planet. They will always have a
type of blood disease that needs treatment.”
    “So rippers on your home world look different to the
‘vampires’ here? How do they look different?” This was giving me a headache; I
just couldn’t understand how a species can look different as they travel from
one dimension to the next.
    The Commander explained to me that the vampires here on
Earth had red eyes with blue veins; the veins had a spider web effect around
their eyes. Before they left their home planet (which is called Sendryl), they
only had red eyes with bags under them. They looked more like someone who had
been out partying all night long in a club filled with cigarette smoke and
hadn’t slept in two days.
    The changes to the ripper when they arrived here on Earth
were pretty quick. After about a month they started to develop the spider web
veins, and about two months later the effect was permanent. No time spent back
in their own dimension would cure them of the nightmarish look.
    “Then why do they bother coming here? If they mostly look
like you back home, why risk the permanent deformity by coming here to kidnap
Earthlings?” Man these rippers must either be totally stupid, or desperate.
    Coming to a planet that will permanently make them look like
something out of a Grimm’s Fairy Tale doesn’t seem like a fair trade for some
slaves. Something isn’t adding up here.
    “Commander, is there more to the story with the rippers
coming here?” I tried to give him my stern look that said ‘You better tell me
all you know’, but I think it really said I’m constipated, where is the
bathroom?’ My face started to redden with embarrassment when his mouth started
to twitch while holding back a laugh.
    “B’Lana, do you need a break? The latrine is just across the
hall and two doors down if you need it.” At that point he smiled which just
made my face redden even more. I needed to figure out a way to get him to tell
me what I wanted to know.
    I considered slapping his face, but the