Chapter 2: The Alien device
Julian tried to force the thought out of his mind but... it was already evident.
The alien commander, without showing any sign or foreplay that he would do so, brutally sliced the head of the old ruler with his sword.
Luiin gasped and looked away, while Julian could only stare in shock.
The head went off the neck of the old Zyrosain, blood sputtering as it did so, gushing out censoriously, like a dale had been let open.
Not a sound escaped from his mouth as he gasped, and Julian, looking at it once again, felt it gave him the creeps.
The commander turned to Julian and Luiin and said in a tentative voice — a voice so low it made Julian wonder if truly they were the ones he was talking to.
"Sometimes death is the best choice, but right now, it might not be."
The commander paused and started to walk around them in circles.
"You have a fine girl right here. So don't mind if I take her away—"
The last words the commander said were what Julian dreaded the most and so, suddenly triggered by it, he held Luiin, who was more frightened than he was, and broke into a run.
The commander paused and watched them run away, a vicious smile suddenly on his lips, his eyes gleaming with destruction.