Banished To Earth Book Two, A Dragon King? (41)

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      The Urgis looked down from high above Earth’s atmosphere. Fev snorted, assessed and made his determination. Stayner remained their best option. He had, inadvertently, subdued Earth. At least it no longer posed a threat. He had, after all, taken the planet, albeit in a most unexpected way…

     Davin was yet undetected. They would recalibrate, against the off chance that somewhere down there Davin still lived…

      Chase was dead. Experiment failed? No. The acquisition of knowledge is never a failure. Chase had succeeded in exposing a superior race from another galaxy. A new threat? Most assuredly. Supreme knowledge acquired, an unexpected discovery. These distant strangers had given them a gift, a gift from another galaxy. Unfortunately, it seemed he no longer existed. However, that was yet to be substantiated. After all, how does one prove a negative?

    Others now walked their Earth: two Hunters and something else. They suddenly appeared on their sensors. They had been. Then they were not. And now they were back.

     Where did they go? How did they return? Who was this unknown creature, not human, not Monster, not Hunter? Uncertain. She was female, altered; a chimera, similar but not the same as the multitude that had ruled the planet. Pry Athamel Thobay? Highly likely. Who else could she be? And what had breached the atmosphere? Another unknown.

  Further study required. Nothing beyond their knowledge or control could be tolerated. Ignorance is always a threat.  What cannot be learned cannot be harnessed or destroyed. Further study essential…

         He managed to come from outside the galaxy and invade their incubator. That, alone, made him an invaluable source of knowledge. And if this new creature who was neither Hunter nor Monster was in fact, Pry Athamel Thobay, she would most certainly be the only bait capable of drawing him out. They would, in the meantime, recalibrate, observe and preserve.

   This Pry, if she still existed, could prove every bit as valuable to them as Davin.

 They would stay their hand. Stayner may yet prove replaceable. He was colloquial, stable to the extreme; if they still existed, they were exotic, invaluable, preferable…  

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