Alana smiled happily at all of them, wishing her father had lived to see this day. Needing to complete their union, he forced her body against his, pulling steadily against her powerful back muscles. “You are now bonded to each other for as long as you both shall live,” the presiding officer announced. The knife handle filled with his blood in the same manner as the one still buried in her own stomach. Needing to complete their union, he forced her body against his, pulling steadily against her powerful back muscles. Béla felt a slight nudge as Marla concentrated on her, but having remembered what she’d tried to do to Elaine after that second water hole, she was shielded enough to prevent Marla from teleporting her somewhere. It was the way their species propagated. There, the roots would grow, greedily absorbing her pink life-fluids until they were fully formed fetuses. Stepping down from their glass bedchamber, they were surrounded with bodies lying on the floor.
