Page 70 of The Alien Warrior's Vow

Emma covered her mouth, horrified.

Lans’s lips flattened into a grim line. “It looks like the footage Chozo showed us of his city’s destruction.”

“Indeed,” Clavas said.

“But why were the Plutonians harmed too? I thought the big, mysterious aliens were only upset at the Heronas?”

Lans studied the Healer. “Do you know anything of their origins or what they could want?”

The Healer kept quiet.

Emma stared at his stoic expression.

He knew something!

“What aren’t you telling us?” she insisted, walking right up to him. “There’s something you know, isn’t there?”

“There is.” The Healer started hesitantly.

Lans’s eyes widened. “You are familiar with this threat?”

“They are theUngazi.The destroyers of ‘impurities’. The balancers. They believe they have been tasked by the universe for a sacred duty.”

“Which is?” Emma prodded.

“To keep all bloodlines pure.”

“Bloodlines pure?” Clavas echoed.

“They track the intermingling of species. They appear and wipe out the species to keep the bloodlines from ‘deteriorating’.”

“So we’re dealing with the alien version of Nazis?” Emma frowned. “Great.”

Lans looked at her. “Plutonians and humans.” His eyes widened with horror and he whipped around to stare at the Healer. “We have been mating humans throughout history.”

“Which is why they manufactured the Red Plague through the Dultge.”

Clavas’s bottom lip trembled. “My mother…”

“They tried to do the same to the humans too,” the Healer looked at her, “but your sun protected you.”

“That’s why the Heronas wanted my blood. It’s immune because we’ve survived the Red Plague,” Emma said.

“Here.” Clavas lifted his interface. “Remember what Si-Moon and Zar told us? About the Dultge terros taking a Bluroin female as a mate?”

Emma nodded.

Clavas’s hologram spread out until it filled the room.

Darkness eclipsed the ceiling overhead and it felt like she wasinsidethe Dultge camp.

A loudboomshook the air.

Mountains trembled.

She crouched instinctively, fearing for her life even though she knew very well that it wasn’t real.

“What is this?” Lans asked, his gaze darting all around.

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