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would fly by occasionally, those would
really hurt if they hit her and she could see how breathing could
be a problem. He was right. She wouldn’t survive out there
long.
    “You can let go.” She said quietly, wriggling in his arms.
    Wray frowned down at her. He didn’t want to let her go. He liked how she felt in his
arms, against his body. He didn’t want her to try to flee again for
if she did, she would be harmed and he couldn’t allow that. Turning
so he was between her and the entrance, he let her slowly slide
down his body, releasing her only when she was steady on her
feet.
    Kim quickly took several steps away from him
and found she instantly missed his warmth. Turning, she watched him
closely and realized he was doing the same thing to her. She could
also see he was concerned that she would flee into the storm.
Why?
    “Who are you? Where am I? And how the hell
did I get here?” Kim started firing questions at him.
    “I am Wray. You are on Pontus and I brought
you to this cave after we crashed.”
    Kim’s mouth opened, then closed as she tried
to process what he was saying. Finally, she settled on the one
thing she immediately understood. “We crashed?”
    “Yes. Our shuttle was attacked when we were
transporting you from the Ganglian ship to the Searcher.”
    “We! You said it was just us!” Her eyes
immediately flew behind her, bracing for an attack.
    “He is not here. My warrior was killed in the
attack.”
    “He’s dead?”
    “Yes. I had to leave him in the shuttle.”
    Kim looked at him for several moments and was
shocked to realize she believed him. Someone he had known had died
while he was saving her. “I’m sorry.”
    Wray was shocked that she would concern
herself with a warrior’s death. Males were expendable. Females were
not. “He died an honorable death,” he informed her, “protecting a
female. The Goddess will welcome him with loving arms.”
    “You said you were transporting me.”
    “Yes, our portable repair unit was able to
heal most of your injuries, but I wanted to make sure, so I was
taking you to the deep repair unit on the Searcher.”
    “Who are you?” She asked again.
    “I am Wray Vasteri. I am a Tornian Warrior.”
He didn’t tell her he was also the Emperor. It would make things
easier if he did, but for some reason he wanted to see how she
would react to Wray , not the Emperor.
    “Tornian…”
    “Yes. What are you?” Wray finally got to ask
the question he’d wanted answered since he’d first seen her.
    “I… generally we call ourselves humans.”
    “Humans?” Wray had never heard of them. “What
do you mean generally?”
    “I… well, we are all humans, but since we
live in different countries, we usually identify ourselves by
that.”
    Wray just looked at her, while he understood
what she was saying it wasn’t the Tornian way. Yes, they would
describe the specific area they were from but first and foremost,
they were Tornian.
    “You are called Wray?”
    “Yes and you are?” he asked the next question
he’d wanted to know.
    “My name is Kim, Kim Teel.”
    “Kimkimteel.” He repeated.
    “No!” The strength of her denial surprised
him. “Listen. My name , first name is Kim,
like yours is Wray. My last name is Teel, like yours, is Vasteri.
Understand?”
    Wray didn’t appreciate her talking to him as
if he were an untrained Warrior and growled his displeasure.
    “Don’t growl at me!” Kim stomped her foot.
“It’s not my fault you were wrong!”
    Wray looked at her in shock. No one spoke to
the Emperor like that… but wait, she didn’t know he was the
Emperor. Isn’t that what he wanted? To discover how she would see him ?
    “I apologize… Kim.” The foreign name somehow
felt right crossing his lips. “I did not mean to upset you. I have
never met a… human before."
    "You haven’t?” She asked, not knowing if she
should be happy or sad about that.
    “No. What planet do you claim?”
    “Claim?” It took her a moment to