Page 42 of Sohut's Protection

Fucking hell…

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He really didn’t know what he was going to do with the female.

Sohut spent the greater part of the next few hours deliberating this sudden problem he’d been thrust into.

This wasn’t a situation he’d even considered before embarking on the mission.

He had never thought the creature from a Class Four planet would have been a sentient being.

Once again, he felt a surge of anger and disgust from the fact that the Goris had expected him to overlook that very important detail.

They saw the female before him as an animal.

He knew exactly what that felt like—being seen as even lesser than a person.

His own mor hadn’t even thought he’d been worthy of the gift of life.

If she’d known he’d have come out ill…weak…she would have snuffed out his life while he was still growing within her.

But she’d lost that opportunity and so she’d sold him and his brother when they were only chids.

Life only got worse from there.

Working in the Tasqal mines as a chid, he and his brother were seen as barely having a consciousness…

They were used as machines, their only purpose to dig the rare talix metal from the rock.

They’d been beaten, starved, punished…abused…

Treated as animals.

His anger surged.

That’s what the Gori saw this delicate being in front of him as.

No.

Correction.

They didn’t see her.

When they looked at her they saw nothing and that was the problem.

He didn’t need to get to know her to see the flaw in their reasoning.

Eyeing her now, the glow of the light disc highlighting her features, Sohut stopped pacing to study her.

For the entire time, she’d sat still, her body curled into a ball. Now and then, her gaze searched the bushes.

In some moments, she’d worry her bottom lip, her face becoming distressed but whenever she realized he was watching her, she would go emotionless.

She was small.

Bigger than Larn but still small compared to him.

She didn’t have much weight on her either and he wasn’t sure if that was because she’d been living in the wild on her own for over an entire orbit or if that was just what she’d been like before.

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