an arm full
of blood. I smiled at him. He set the pints on the nightstand, then leaned
down and kissed my forehead. “Hi, beautiful,” he said as he brought a pint up
to my mouth. I quickly drained all eight.
Carlos stood there holding my hand for a minute until Matt walked in the
door with his laptop. He glared at Carlos for a split second then his eyes
softened. He walked to the other side of the bed and set the laptop on the
tray. “Okay, what did he say, Sarah?”
I squeezed my eyes shut. “Ummm, I know he said ‘Decorus proprius.’”
“That means ‘beautiful specimen’,” he said, trying to suppress a grin.
“Great. Now I’m a specimen. Marvelous. Okay, then he said, ‘Is unus
est mei.’”
“Ummm, ‘This one is mine.’”
“The last thing it said was, ‘I’m iens ludo per is unus promoris.’”
Matt chuckled slightly, “I’m not sure you want to hear this one, honey.”
I glared at him. He snickered again, “Well, that means, ‘I’m going to
play with this one first.’”
“Well, why not? Everybody else sees me as their play thing, why not him
too? Cameron, when the hell can I get out of here?” I snapped.
“Two days, Sarah. Maybe three.”
“I need to learn some Latin”
“Sarah, you’re not going to try to talk to that thing?” Carlos
said.
“Like hell I’m not. I’m going to get that thing to tell me where it lives.
That’s what I’m gonna do.”
All three of them grinned at me. Derek poked his head in the door then
quickly looked anywhere but in the room: I was still lying naked on the bed
while Cameron stitched my leg, which all of us in the room had all forgotten.
Carlos grabbed a gown from the drawer behind him and draped it across me as he
smiled at me. “What is it, Derek?” Matt said.
“Ummm, sorry to interrupt. But that thing is waking up.”
Instinctively I tried to sit up. “Ahhhh,” I cried out in pain
“Sarah!” they all yelled at once.
“Sorry,” I gasped, “I forgot. Matt, can you bring up the security camera
that’s outside his cell for me on your laptop? I want to see what’s
happening. If I have a question for that thing, I’ll pop into your heads and
have you ask them. Leave the Latin translator up too.”
They both nodded. Matt pushed the tray with the laptop closer so I could
reach it. He kissed my cheek, Carlos squeezed my hand then they both ran out
the door behind Derek. I watched the thing on the monitor as it silently
studied the cage it was in. It was looking for a weakness. It was looking for
a way out. I shivered as I typed a question into the Latin translator. I
reached out to Matt, ‘Here’s the first thing I want you to say to it:
Operor vos narro English?’
‘Honey, do you really think it speaks English?’
‘How did you know that’s what I asked?’
‘Not too hard to figure out on that one.’
‘Oh, well, it’s worth a shot, isn’t it?’
I watched on the monitor as all of them came to a stop near the cage.
The thing quietly studied all of them then he said, “Ego mos tantum compello
female.”
‘Honey?’ Matt thought.
I typed as fast as I could, ‘Ummm, he says he’ll only speak to the
female. Say this: Is est vulnero tamen is can animadverto vos. Then point to
the camera.’
Matt repeated what I said. I shivered as that thing looked into the
camera and grinned.
‘What did I just say, honey?’ Matt thought then he jumped when the
thing spoke again.
“Meus sperma mos vigorous suus,” as it began stroking it’s shaft and
becoming hard.
A shiver of fear shot down my spine as I typed what it said into the
computer. “Cute,” I muttered out loud then I began to fill Matt in on what it
said: ‘You told him I was injured but that I could see him. Then he said
that his sperm would heal me. Ask him this: Operor vos have a nomen? You
just asked him what his name is’
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