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spark of her will straightening her back again.
    So much for docile, he thought ruefully.
    “I’m talking about friends and companionship,” she said, gesticulating with her hands, agitated.
    “I will be your companion,” he said with a grin. “I look forward especially to sharing the communal bed with you.”
    “I’m sure you do,” she muttered darkly. “But what about the rest of the time? Surely you have to go work or something. What about then?”
    Kor held back some of his glee that she finally spoke as if she intended to bond with him. He needed to tread carefully now. “There will be other mates for you to befriend, earthlings like yourself and females of other species who have been mated.”
    “So I’m not the only one?” she queried.
    “No, there are many like you who have been chosen to leave their home worlds and become mates to the males on ours.”
    “Why?”
    “Let us become more comfortable if we are to embark on a history lesson,” he said, guiding her back to the lounge area and pressing a button to drop from the ceiling a vid screen. At least instead of arguing she was now showing an interest. He hoped she’d be more receptive to his plight once he gave her a history lesson.

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    Diana allowed him to seat her, still somewhat stunned by the reality of her situation.
    I’m really on a spaceship flying through the universe on my way to a new world. Holy crap! And by the sounds of it, I’m not the first one.
    A giant screen that had dropped down from the seamless ceiling lit up, and Kor stood beside it pointing to the large planet that appeared in the middle of it.
    “This is my home world, Xaanda, or, translated, Planet of Bounty. You’ll notice it resembles your planet Earth quite a bit, although we are several times larger. We have a bright sun much like your own and a second, smaller red sun. Rotating around our planet are three moons, the resting place for our ancestors. But that is a history lesson for another day.”
    Kor touched the planet on the screen and zoomed in quickly ’til the view shrank to a panorama of a city—a futuristic one by Diana’s standards. It gleamed silver, white, and cream with some buildings towering high while others seemed low and spread. Little saucers zipped around busily like bees in a hive.
    “This is our capital, Menderiosa, where what you would call a president or emperor resides. We will be living just outside the capital, here, in Jenol.” Again he zoomed.
    Diana gaped at the astonishing scenes he was showing her. It’s so pretty, she thought. “It’s all very nice, but you still haven’t explained why you took me.”
    “I’m getting to that. We discovered the ability to space travel quite some time ago, something your people are only just coming into. We’ve been exploring the galaxy far and wide, bringing back treasures in the form of new plants and animals. We chart the stars and their planets, tracking other sentient beings like ourselves, making contact when deemed ready. We are, however, a violent species, much like earthlings. The world I showed you is divided into six major areas of government. And while we skirmish over borders and rights, we mostly save our aggression for the races beyond our planet who enjoy subjugating. One of these violent races thought to enslave us. They are now extinct.”
    Diana shivered at the dark smile that came over him when he said that.
    Kor continued. “But before we destroyed them, one of them came to our world unbeknownst to us. He brought with him a deadly virus. One that attacked our women and killed them. Those that survived were left barren. Our males retaliated and wreaked horrible vengeance, but our revenge was bittersweet, for the cure to the disease was found too late.
    Over ninety percent of our female population died, and of the ten percent left, less than three percent could still bear children.”
    “That’s horrible,” whispered Diana.
    “Beyond horrible. Without the