Alien Bride

To my right, their pink moon is still barely visible. To my left, Empire City rests. It is so much

uglier in the daytime. I don’t know how the aliens can stand it.

The sentinels come to mind. That’s how the Empire ensures there won’t be any more rebellions. Except, Slain didn’t account for his own soldiers to turn on him.

He should have known. The Lottery system was bound to fail.

I don’t know what will happen to us. This is the biggest leap of faith any human has ever committed to.

I know I’m happy. I’m in love.

I’m a bride to three alpha aliens…

I didn’t think I’d get the chance to say those words. I mean, crap, I was abducted. I thought they were going to kill me. But that’s never what their invasion was about.

It was about freedom and security. It was about finding love.

As I walk through the light green fields, I am surrounded by rubble and strange metallic objects, ruined by decades of war and neglect.

In the daylight, I can see the beauty this planet used to hold. It’s still there, buried underneath the leftover destruction.

I shouldn’t be out here without the aliens. I shouldn’t be out here at all, really, but I want to see more and analyze my thoughts.

Soon, I come to a small hill past a hole in a chain link fence. I duck through and climb to the top, heart racing because I know how stupid I’m being.

But everything is bliss. It’s just… so great. As my feet hit the top of the hill, I can’t fathom how life could be this good for me.

I’ve never felt close to anyone before, but I finally feel trusting enough to open up. I didn’t think it would take three aliens, but they all serve me in so many different ways.

I love them all. Is such a thing possible?

Vraik as the toughest exterior of the bunch, and his emotional wall might be at its highest. But I managed to crack it last night. Something changed inside him.

He’s a warrior that is used to following orders. Now that he’s met me, I believe I have opened a new side to him. I wear his necklace proudly as I stare at Empire City.

Lök is a man who seeks to destroy this planet. His needs come from a place of anger and resentment, but it’s not like that grew out of nowhere. He is a deeply emotional being, though he is not yet ready to admit it. But that is who he is.

I know him. I know how it feels to want to destroy the past, leaving only a trail of blazing embers. But if we both hang onto that emotion, if we choose hate instead of love, it won’t end with joyous fireworks.

Then there’s Rekker.

An alien with conviction, he is bound by logic. But for real change to occur, he cannot always hang onto logical arguments.

Change comes when one answers their heart, no matter how crazy its request may be.

In this process, we all connect to find one another. All four of us need each other more than we know.

Again, I am reminded of Earth. The blue shores, the vast mountainous regions that make up most of the planet… the people. I still worry about them. They are my people, my race.

I used to believe I was the alien. I was so different from everyone else.

So much has happened in my life. Yes, some bad. That bad has lasted far too long. But there has been so much good, too.

My father. He was good. He taught me to yearn for more in life.

I almost forgot.

There were times when my mother and I got along. When we were a family, we were a single unit that felt unstoppable.