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again. I promise I won’t hurt you.”
    Titus snorted. When he stood she jumped to her feet. With her hood back, she gazed up at him. Short tuffs of dark hair stood at all angles from her head. He’d never seen a female with short hair. She was taller than other human females he’d seen, but still much smaller than Titus. She was cute. Her eyes were green and round.
    “How did you get here?” he asked.
    “A space shuttle. But it’s gone.”
    “Someone dumped you here? Alone?”
    “No. Um, no. There was an alien, an alien called a Gorgano that brought me here. I originally left Earth in a space shuttle. It crashed on a different planet. One day we were air raided and huge aliens, tall, but thin and ugly, came. I, I was captured and held for a long time. There was a battle in space and the ship was blown up. A Gorgano dragged me onto a different vessel before the explosion and we escaped. We were chased by another vessel and hit. The ship was damaged, the Gorgano flew into a worm hole and I could hear its mind working, there were thoughts in my mind. We were off course, spinning. When we flew at the sun I thought we were dead, but we made it half way through.
    “The alien managed to straighten out the vessel because we stopped spinning, I hated the spinning, and we stopped spinning, so we didn’t crash, but the panel’s lights were off, fried I guess. When the alien opened the vessel door, it died. Collapsed onto the ice the second its foot touched the frozen ground. Too cold, I guess. When it tried to breathe the smoky mist, the air made droplets of moisture into snowflakes of ice. The ice expanded its lungs, filling it; I could see the snowflakes travel through fine veins, until its insides burst. It was winter on the part of the planet I was kidnapped from and I already had these furs. The Gorgano was naked and bald.”
    Titus studied her. If cold killed the Gorgano, the information was priceless, as long as she wasn’t lying. Her words were babbled as though relaying a story. Or telling one. It wasn’t anything he could put his finger on, but something was off. She seemed to search her memory when she spoke of how the Gorgano died. The air was misty around them, but Titus saw no snowflakes. There was very little snow, mostly ice. The icy, snow banks had a fine layer of what was more flakes of ice. He gathered the mist must settle and form the ice he saw to cover everything.
    “How long did the Gorgano have you?”
    “A few weeks in the larger vessel. Maybe a week in the smaller one. It was taking me to its planet, but I was kept secured in a strange room most of the time. It took me out to study me. I was out when we were attacked, on the bridge. Flying into a sun is spooky.”
    Titus concurred. His experience was wild. His trip to the dark planet was fruitful. A planet inhabitant told him it saw a vessel of sorts fly into the sun and never emerge. It had happened some time ago. The being he had spoken to was odd, Titus asked it questions, and each time it moved away from him, then stopped. He was getting exasperated until he realized the sticky substance it left behind were written words in his language. Titus was intrigued.
    The being had no clue who or what was on the vessel, but it was enough for Titus to decide he had to know. Now he knew. Bertha was lost to him. Flying a vessel worlds within worlds was impossible. Finn said if he hadn’t left the warrior creature Arax’s world through a portal of water, he and Bethany never would have made it home. Their shuttle was completely destroyed. Finn was the only protection Bethany had or she would have been smashed to pieces.
    The idea made Titus close his eyes. Poor Bertha would be dead with no Zargonnii warrior to shield her from the vicious entry to another dimension. Images of her little body crashing against the ceiling, walls and floor made him cringe. Her death would have been brutal. She would have died terrified.
    Poor little female.
    Her death was