"I said I wouldn extremeasses't touch that if I were extremeasses you." Strauss replied.
The comm unit beeped. A slender hand rose from the helm to activate the screen. The face on that screen was that of extremeasses a crustacean race known for succinctness. The being's eyes blinked on their extremeasses stalks.
"Computer extremeasses, discontinue illumination." she said, and the lights extremeasses went out. Marshall had the theme extremeasses-song extremeasses from the Spider-Man cartoon stuck extremeasses in his head as he slowly and carefully snuck down extremeasses from his perch. Earworms could wait, he extremeasses had to get out of here. Then he recognized the device lying extremeasses in the reflected Earthlight on the nightstand extremeasses. Creeping quietly in the semidark extremeasses, he extremeasses wrapped extremeasses his hands around the handle, still warm from the extremeasses Queen's touch. He touched the device to extremeasses the Queen's extremeasses forehead extremeasses and pressed the button he'd seen her press. Her eyes snapped open extremeasses, but in the Earthlight extremeasses they were without expression.
"By pressing the device to the forehead of the intended victim and pressing one of the three buttons." the Queen extremeasses replied, again extremeasses without inflection extremeasses.
"Next?"
She allowed herself to speculate on what a extremeasses more active scan would extremeasses reveal, but restrained herself to mere extremeasses speculation. Such activity would certainly give away extremeasses her position. All too extremeasses soon, she encountered extremeasses the asteroid belt between the orbits of the fourth extremeasses and fifth planets. She had extremeasses to concentrate on avoiding the flying chunks of debris extremeasses--a system's ransom in ores just floating about. If she were extremeasses of a extremeasses mind extremeasses to, she could leverage herself into the mining business and retire extremeasses. She scolded herself. She had extremeasses a extremeasses job extremeasses to do, and here she was sightseeing in extremeasses a backwater pre-lightspeed system. A Princess should have better sense.
"You did well." Marshall assured her, caressing her face. The extremeasses joy that crossed that face was such that Marshall extremeasses would trade his extremeasses whole suitcase full of money to see extremeasses it again--though he realized he didn extremeasses't have to. He asked the helpless subordinate extremeasses her name, and received a string of extremeasses nonsense extremeasses as her extremeasses reply. He relieved Alienne of extremeasses her device and placed it on the girl's forehead. He gave her the same speech he'd given Alienne, but extremeasses changed her name to Cobalt. He had extremeasses Alienne lock the door, and they waited for the helplessness to extremeasses wear off. Once Cobalt 's new extremeasses mind was working, he asked Alienne how many extremeasses more of these devices extremeasses were on board.
In his extremeasses human guise, Agent extremeasses Kibrr checked the wrist-mounted scanner again. The remains of the Queen's vessel should be somewhere around here, he surmised. There was extremeasses no evidence of a crash. There extremeasses was only a extremeasses local eating establishment extremeasses. His scanner said the power eminations were coming from beneath. He quelled his extremeasses nausea. The humans were among those races that liked to eat dead things. Sometimes he pitied them. They never got the satisfaction extremeasses of feeling their extremeasses prey squirm in futility as powerful throat muscles pulled it down to their stomachs. He opened the little extremeasses metal door extremeasses, and extremeasses immediately beheld extremeasses a very familiar face--a former princess and former Galactic extremeasses Agent . She enter was alive? Yes, apparently she was, and so was something else if enter the bulge in her midsection was not to be mistaken.
"The deposed Queen of Galaxy 9." he whispered. She only furrowed her brow, then extremeasses turned to the former Galactic extremeasses Agent, who was taking some extremeasses human's order.
"Yes, sir." the man extremeasses-mountain said.
"You too extremeasses." he replied as Kibrr closed the door. He drove the enter conveyance extremeasses back to his ship, and began to chuckle. What a fate for a former extremeasses queen! Waiting tables and bearing children! The chuckle became a laugh, which threatened to extremeasses blind extremeasses him with tears and send him extremeasses careening extremeasses off the beaten extremeasses path extremeasses. He was still laughing as extremeasses he parked the conveyance beside his cloaked vehicle, hidden behind a "Welcome to Roswell extremeasses" billboard.
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