Chapter 22

“It used to be Rachel, but I guess it’s Ciara now,” I answered her relaxing.

“Oh,” Rose sighed, “whatever you do, don’t say that again. They get really angry if you talk about your home planet.”

“Yes, thank you,” I answered staring blankly ahead.

Survival may be more difficult than I thought.

The conversation was pleasant with my new counterparts. I didn’t look over so I only knew Rose, Tamia, and Shi by the sounds of their voices. Out of the five of us only Rose and I were from Earth.

I learned being from Earth had protected me from being sold onto a planet where slaves were worked to death. That didn’t take long for a human. Earthlings were too frail for most other planets. Our needs for oxygen and water made us difficult to keep.

Planets like Pateria would pay huge prices for us. We were everything they wanted in a sex slave. Weak, intelligent, mostly hairless, and with compatible sex organs.

The men hadn’t been lying about me never going