In the common hall Ryoko was still not convinced that Junitha had super powers. Then Junitha made her blades appear out of thin air and made them fly around the room at her command.
“Then this means you were holding back in our sparring match,” said Ryoko.
“I wasn’t holding back,” said Junitha, “I just wasn’t using the power of Antalla.”
“What if you did use it?”
“Then I might accidentally kill you. Can we talk about something else? Hey are you sure you are okay Samal?”
“I am fine,” said Samal, “My arm is better and they can grow a new ear for me when we get back to Earth. Although I wish people would stop coming up to me and apologizing.”
The others wanted to see more of Junitha’s abilities. She demonstrated her ability to ‘time step’. They asked about the Divine Roar. She told them it was the most difficult of her abilities to master and tended to only manifest in the direst of situations. Janessa was sitting off a little way when Duron came up to her.
“Janessa I just want to say that I am sorry if I took advantage of you during the chaos,” he said.
“Its okay Duron,” she replied, “we had our brains scanned. We both had telepathic aliens screwing with us. I have no idea why they thought it was a good idea to make us super horny but it was no ones fault. Well it was the aliens’ fault. I’m sure that if we had not run into each other we would have grabbed the nearest person around and tried to have sex with them.”
“Are you sure about that?” said Duron.
Janessa was not sure about that.
“Because Zai said what the Spectral Horde was doing was like hypnosis. They could influence us but ultimately they could not make anyone do anything they were not already capable of or anything they did not want to do on some level.”
“Maybe we should just forget all of it,” said Janessa.
“Do you really want to forget it?” asked Duron, “because I am not sure I can.”
Janessa did not really believe she could either. But what was she supposed to do? Just forget their past? Janessa could not do that. But why could she not do that? He wanted her. And she was realizing that she wanted him too. But he had hurt her before worse than anyone else her whole life. And Janessa had never believed the saying ‘you always hurt the ones you love’. How could she be sure things would be any different this time?
“I have news,” said Zai, last of the Raath as he entered the common hall, “thanks to Suchin Markjon we now know where the Spectral Horde’s home planet is.”
Zai handed a data pad to Duron and said, “You should input these coordinates right away. It should not take us more than thirty six hours to arrive there.”
“How did Suchin do this?” asked Duron.
“Suchin Markjon is a latent telepath,” said Zai, “I believe she telepathically connected with the Spectral Horde during their boarding action. I also believe the Spectral Horde to share a hive mind. This is how she was able to stay connected with them over time. However they were also connected to her and used that to gain a better understanding of how to attack a human mind.”
“So what does this mean for us Zai? What about your mission to judge us?”
“I made my decision some time ago.”
Zai, last of the Raath left them.
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