Chapter 19: Never call me Tunrian

Balthazar came through the door two hours later, and they sat down to lunch. She waited until the cyborg that served them had left before she made her request.

"Please can we eat with the others?"

"Why?"

"I am going stir crazy, Balthazar. I've got nothing to do here. I'm used to working long hours, and now all I do is sit around. I can't take it anymore. I think my spirit will die if I have to be trapped in here much longer."

He sat down his knife and fork. "You believe humans have spirit."

Please, she prayed silently, don't let this become a weird discussion about souls. "Try subjugating us, and you will find out with how much spirit we can fight."

"Our weapons are more advanced. You cannot fight us."

"We will fight, with whatever we have, even if we have to pick up rocks and throw them."

"That would not be a logical course of action. You cannot hit our ship with rocks."