Lib Novel Page 76
“There.” Ka’Cit jerked his head and she looked in the direction he’d indicated.
She couldn’t see at first, not till a panel lifted in the wall high across the room like a set of blinds.
The tall female alien was standing there.
Herza.
She stood alone, her hands fisted at her sides and her tail swishing through the air in much the same way a cat would do when looking at a mouse.
The suddenness of seeing the female just standing there sent a chill through Nia.
“Oh my God.”
She was aware that Ka’Cit was punching in a series of codes into the panel by the door but she couldn’t take her eyes off the alien female.
Why was she just standing there watching them?
Why was she not attacking?
Why wasn’t she trying to stop them?
“Get in, ta’ii. Quick.”
Somehow, Ka’Cit had opened the huge doors, but his eyes were on Herza too as he spoke.
“What is she doing?”
His understanding of what she was trying to say only went so far, she knew. Ka’Cit didn’t respond and his gaze remained locked on the alien across the room.
It was as if they were having a staring match and Nia gripped her gun to her chest.
A sliver of fear ran through her.
She hadn’t been this afraid just moments before.
Not when the swarm of aliens had attacked them. Not with those same enemies now writhing in pain at their feet.
But now, with Herza watching them, her cold eyes focused on them only, the fear Nia felt was very real.
As she slipped through the doors with Ka’Cit following behind, he didn’t take his eyes off the alien above them till the doors sealed shut.
He turned to her then.
“Let’s go.”
The urgency in his voice was evident but she didn’t need any encouragement.
“There,” he said and Nia followed his gaze.
They were in the room with the large ramp now and there was a shuttle, well, two shuttles, parked within it.
The shuttles were oval, with two engines on each side and they were no bigger than commercial vans.
They headed toward the shuttle closest to them and Ka’Cit retrieved something from his pocket: a flat metallic card.
He pressed it against the shuttle and the back doors began to open.
He caught her gaze then and shrugged.