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humans.  Why would they be meeting? I knew none of my kind here because I would only recognize another Zolera if they had no concealment spells on.  None of us would be foolish enough to walk around like that, an open target to any Boru let alone exposing ourselves to the unknowing human race.  Why were these humans looking for them?   Were the humans working for the Boru, if so, why?   So many questions were flying around my head that I couldn’t hold onto one of them.
    “You look like you’re going to be sick,” Michelle, another fellow waitress commented with concern.  “Go home and try to get some rest, Tess.  I got it.”
    I couldn’t argue with her so I nodded, muttering a “thanks,” before heading back for my purse.
    As soon as I took one step outside, my senses heightened and my eyes darted around the parking lot at the instant twinge of fierce, looming eyes.  Something was watching me.

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter Two
     
    I could feel the malice, the pure hatred shooting at me from out of the darkness.  The safety lights out here were a joke.  They seldom worked and, though we’d been complaining about them for some time, the owner had done nothing about them.
    The sound of laughing patrons penetrated the door behind me and I felt a shred of annoyance.  They were all happy, eating their food and joking around without a care in the world.  None of them were in potential danger like I was, if in fact I was in danger.  Was this sleep deprivation paranoia?   This just had to be all in my mind.
    And then a whiff of something entered my nasal passages and a single tear slid down my cheek from the scent.  The smell was a faint mixture of citrus and fungus.  This was the distinct smell of a Boru.  I was about to face a creature who hated me for what I was, regardless of who I was.  I was strong but I had no way of knowing if I was strong enough.  The prospect of a brawl didn’t appeal to me at the moment.  There were human witnesses to consider as well.
    My car was only about five feet away from me.  Could I make it?   I took one small step and stopped, nothing happened.  I took another step and looked around, nothing happened.  I took a few more steps jumped into my car and locked it as fast as I could.
    He must have just been watching me .  Something moved in the back.  I didn’t have time to react before two green, scaly arms shot out on either side of my seat, gripping me tight around my neck and waist and pinning my arms to my sides.
    I struggled against my captor, trying hard to breath.  Everything was going dark, my struggling slowed.  This is it.  I’m going to die.   Electricity flooded my body.  It felt like I was being electrocuted, but without the pain.  My skin seemed to vibrate from the unnatural power.  I tried to focus on what was happening, tried to force the charge out of my body and into his.  It worked.  The jolt flew from my body, flinging him off of me.
    The Boru was lying in the back seat, convulsing in pain with the current rippling through his body while I choked on the air now flooding back into my lungs.  I was strong, but I didn’t have any other powers.  What had I just done?
    Despite the weird happening, I knew one thing: I was going to have to kill him or he’d kill me.  I reached in my shirt for my knife, but found only skin.  In my mind’s eye I saw it sitting on the back of the toilet bowl where I’d put it before taking my shower.  Shit!   I didn’t know how much longer the charge would hold or have any tools on me to kill the bastard.  Decapitation was best, but salt was a good way to take them down as their skin reacted to it much like a snail’s.
    Every muscle I had protested as I bolted for the restaurant.  I ran into the kitchen, grabbed a large can of salt and a huge butcher’s knife and concealed the objects best I could as I sprinted back outside.  I didn’t even stop to answer the questions that people were