![]() ![]() They are not actually changing her, they are changing her back, revealing that she is an alien, and will reveal the secret she has just been told. She turns and tells him that he doesn't understand. However, she stands up and walks to the exit. The guard enters and Skokes jumps up screaming in a futile attempt to prevent Bree being taken again. In thirty days the fleet will strike at the alien homeworld, turning the tide of the war. A large fleet of ships is hidden and the Earth defenses have been feigning a near-collapse. Skokes, unable to give her what she wants, instead tells her an important military secret: There is hope and Earth is not beaten. He wakes later back in his cell, with Bree looking on, now extensively transformed. The guard grabs his arm and cuts off his hand. Looking down into a cell, he sees her being experimented on, and attempts to stab the guard through the bars. He climbs up and while crawling along the tunnel hears Bree being taken again. Skokes believes he can cut through another set of bars and escape the roof tunnel. She uses her now alien arm to retrieve his cutting implement. ![]() Bree is thrown back into the cell, now with a considerable fraction of her body covered in alien skin. After stabbing it and driving it away, he climbs down, back into his cell. He climbs along the roof tunnel only to be attacked by an unseen creature. Skokes finally cuts through the bars on the roof skylight and escapes. A few hours later she is taken for more experiments. She explains how much Earth has changed during the war. In other cells he can hear the sounds of humans being tortured.īree is returned to the cell, and having been subjected to further experiments by placing skin grafts on more of her body. Using a sharp piece of rock he believes he can slowly cut through the metal bars. Skokes examines the layout of the cell and manages to climb up to a small barred window on the roof. Skokes grabs her arm and tries to forcibly rip the graft from her arm - suddenly the huge alien guard appears and drags the cadet out of the cell. Skokes tells her how badly the war is going, the outer colonies have been destroyed and that he must get out and back into the fight.īree looks again at her skin graft and says that it's the third attempt, and it looks as though it is working this time. She tells him that her previous cell-mate was an instructor who they tortured to death, and that there is no way out because the aliens are more intelligent and a hundred times stronger. Skokes asks her about the layout of the jail. He spots a strange growth on her arm, and she tells him that the alien jailers have been experimenting by grafting samples of their own skin onto her, seemingly in an effort to make her into one of them. Her name is Bree Tristan and she is a cadet. and despise what we become?Īfter Skokes is thrown into a cell, he sees his fellow prisoner and, suspicious, questions her about her name, background and unit. And so, to win, do we become what we despise. Men of war have long known that warriors must often abandon those verities they defend. ![]()
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