Breathing Vapor
“Sharp pangs of agony shot across his form. It was excruciating but he swallowed every anguished howl because, this planet rotation, he’d discovered there was something worse than a frame-deep wound.
Mira’s tears.
When his brave, rigidly self-controlled female had cried, something inside him broke. He wanted to kill the beings who had hurt her.
One of those beings included himself.
Her mother had rebelled against the Humanoid Alliance and they had executed her. Judging by Mira’s distress, she’d seen it all. She would have been a child at the time, too young to remain silent.
But she hadn’t said a word to any being, fearing that ‘bad things’ would happen if she talked. She must have been forced to lie, to hide her anger and her grief and her fear, imitating the cyborgs she thought her father loved.
When she finally broke her silence, telling him the truth, he hadn’t believed her.
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