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other
two not so much. At least not yet.
    “ If you go you
must go now. I will lead you to my ship and take you off this planet. If you
wish to remain there will be some chances for you to go later, but I cannot
promise when or where. I must operate in secret, and I do not know how long it
will be before I am discovered. Have you heard of others disappearing? ”
    “ A few have. We
thought they’d been killed ,” one of the skeptical ones said timidly, for
Morgan was still telekinetically holding his chest in place.
    “ We don’t kill
your kind unless you attack us ,” the trailblazer explained, sensing his
concern. “ I know this is a lot to take in
all at once, but we’re not your enemy. The Skarrons are invading our territory
and we will fight them, but we have no quarrel with you until you attack us. If
you do so we’ll treat you as the enemy, but many of your kind now live with us,
free of the Skarrons. I know it is a great deal to ask, but if you are to come
with me it must be now. ”
    Morgan released her hold on them while intently
watching their thoughts. They didn’t move, but were relieved to be free of her
magical hold none the less.
    “ Come or stay,
your choice ,” she said, backing up into the vent and crawling out.
    The three Hobbits didn’t say anything for a moment, then began conversing amongst themselves into what became an
argument. Eventually one of them followed her, but only one.
    “ There are
really others out there…free? ”
    “ Yes ,”
Morgan confirmed as she looked down on him from her taller height in the access
corridor on the other side of the vent.
    “ Then I will go .”
    “ Good ,”
Morgan said, freezing him in place while she crawled back inside and moved into
the hideout where the other two were chatting rapidly. The vent was the only
way in and out, so before they ran off to tell others or sound an alarm they
had to let her leave first.
    Morgan froze both of them as well and finished
crawling back inside, pulling her left gauntlet off and exposing her fingertips
to the air…then she planted them on one of their heads and concentrated, having
to keep all three frozen while she worked on the one, which wasn’t easy to do.
    This wasn’t the first time she’d had to wipe memories
though, so she quickly found what she wanted to erase and blurred it out of
existence before switching over to do the other one. She pulled a double check
on both, holding their bodies and minds in a frozen state so they wouldn’t know
what was going on, then crawled back out and stood up next to the other Hobbit
in approximately the same position she was when she froze it.
    “ Follow me ,”
she said after releasing it.
    The Hobbit blinked a couple of times, momentarily
disoriented, but it did as told and Morgan walked off with it in tow, holding
the others in check until she got to the limits of her Ikrid range. When she
released them they didn’t remember her or that their fellow Hobbit had crawled
into the hideout with them. After an awkward moment of silence they looked at
each other and picked up on their previous conversation, never knowing that one
of them was missing or how they’d had a chance to go with him.
    Morgan kept a close watch on the thoughts of the one
with her, wandering if he was going to back out but to his credit he didn’t waver.
The recorded message from the other Aronsic had done the trick, and he stuck
very close to her dark blue armor the entire way through the facility, not
understanding just how they were sneaking past others that should have seen
them.
    When they got back to the hidden tunnel Morgan pulled
the crate aside and pointed the Hobbit to go in. He hesitated a moment,
preferring to follow the Human.
    “ I’ll be right
behind you ,” she promised, giving him a little telepathic nudge.
    The Hobbit trodded up into
the gap and slid inside, with Morgan wedging herself behind the crate then
pulling it back as much as she could with her hands…but