Chapter 72

his actions.

“Don’t struggle now. You wouldn’t want to harm us,” the voice

cautioned.

He was still unable to move. “Are you in my head?”

“Yes, in a sense,” the voice affirmed. “But I am one with you.”

“Leave!” Kaen shouted in his mind. “I’ll slice you out myself.”

“I rather like it here. You are already a man of influence, though I could

help you gain even more. You’ve already been so useful with directing our

other tools.”

“What are you after?” Kaen asked the voice.

“We have much to discuss,” the voice replied. “It’s time we get to know

one another.”

Kaen listened as the alien being filled the gaps in Kaen’s memory about

everything he had done over the past three years. He wanted nothing more

than to turn himself in, but he was now a passenger in his own body.

Transforming Kira into a Robus was all according to plan. Whose plan

that was, exactly, remained a mystery to him. All he knew for certain was