be meat? While I continued to cry, the monster seemed more concerned with finding something to eat. How could anyone even feel hungry in a situation like that? We were there, trapped against our
ou think they care about your will? - Then why did they offer me a deal? - Isn't it obvious? I shook my head. "It would be easier to do this bizarre experiment if you agreed, but they would do it anyway." "I don't... No..." I took a few steps back, looking at him and feeling terrified again, as well as a desperate urge to run. "If you start crying again, I'll hit you before their shockwaves reach me." I swallowed my tears, the promises seemed true. "Your whining only gives me a headache and won't get us out of here." "How are we going to get out?" "I don't know yet." "But..." "Shi!" With his long fingers, he pointed to something in a corner of the room; it seemed to be a camera and it certainly had a wide view of the entire room. I was on some kind of bizarre reality show being broadcast to aliens somewhere on Earth or even in space. "We're not going to get out of here." "For a monster, you give up too easily." "Monster?" he roared again. "Watch your mouth." - Wh... what are you? - I stammered. If my crying wasn't going to solve anything, it was better that I knew who I was living with. Until a little over two years ago, I didn't even know about the existence of the Colonizers or any aliens, but apparently there were others, several others, who, just like us, were facing the invasion. - I'm a Vartaxno. My planet is called Vartax. - I think I would be an Earthling. - You think? - He raised one of his thick eyebrows. - I don't usually introduce myself to creatures from other planets. - It seems that your civilization is quite outdated. - Outdated? - It seemed that, besides scaring me, he was also capable of offending me. - Yours also ended up in the hands of the Colonizers. - I failed... I don't know how, but I managed to hit him, the scary monster seemed to retreat and lowered his head, feeling clearly guilty. - Failed? - I wanted to know more. - With my people. - Do you think you alone should have done something against the Colonizers? - It was my responsibility. - Responsibility? How can you feel responsible for that? - But I am... - All that's left is to tell me that you were part of the government. - I am the government. Or were you... - What? - Never mind... - he grumbled. - No! What happened? - Do you really
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