He tried to comfort
her again. “Matara, I swear, you won’t
be harmed. I am going to sedate
you. That’s all I’m going to do, so
please don’t be afraid.”
Miv said, “Go ahead,
my Imdiko. The sooner you tranquilize
her, the sooner she won’t suffer anymore.”
Vadef sighed
heavily. Seeing this one weep made his
chest hurt. He definitely wanted to be
in front of his computer back on the spyship.
He was too damned softhearted to be on the front lines of this invasion
shit.
He stood and
squeezed her thin shoulder, still trying to offer some reassurance to her
despite knowing he really couldn’t. Miv
swept her long curls aside, baring the side of her neck. Vadef pressed the cylinder of the sedating
instrument against the slender column.
Her voice rose again
with fear. “...and give me strength, O
Lord, as you gave Moses as he wandered the desert...”
Unable to listen to
that desperate tone any longer, Vadef depressed the plunger, sending the
tranquilizer into the female’s body. She
lost consciousness in the middle of a word, crumpling where she knelt.
Miv moved quickly to
catch her before she could slide to the floor.
In one smooth motion, he lifted her in his arms. She draped across his arms like a broken
doll. For a moment he and Vadef didn’t
move. They simply stood there and looked
at her pretty face framed by that froth of glorious golden hair.
Releasing
Summer 2013
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