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Prologue
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The rain poured heavily, the camp ground soaking, the water had nowhere to go so it sat waiting for the skies to stop opening up. The water, if you could call it that was undrinkable, unusable, and waisted really. It was thickened with some sort of chemical that burned when it touched skin, the native plants however, seemed to relish in it. Soaking it up as much as possible.
The rain hadn't stopped or came close to stopping for the past week now, ever since she had arrived, it had been raining. At this stage, it would take forever and a day to dry out the camping gear and supplies, if drying it out was even possible at all. Who could live in these conditions.
A twig snapped outside, right beside her head as Natisa was trying to sleep with wet air. Eyes snapped open, her sight trained to the right as a shadow of being stalked at her campsite. A hiss followed soon after followed by a static over what must have been a radio.
"Nah, the princess isn't here." A deep cultured, American accented voice came from near her head. "Smells like a man."
Slamming her eyes closed, just as a torch appeared in the window of her glamping tent, she steadied her breathing, turning her short quick intakes of breath into deep ones, to try and fool the man that she was asleep.
Natisa was wearing full black gear and with a ski mask covering most of her face.
"Are you sure?" Came a voice she knew all too well over the man's radio.
"Yes, he doesn't smell like her." Man one answered back quickly.
"Keep searching, the princess has to be around these parts somewhere." Came through the radio.
"Copy that." Heavy foot steps sounded heading away from her camp.
Months ago, Natisa had traded her government issued camping gear for this posh step up and was now grateful that she did.
Served the Earth government right. During the course of reporting back her findings to them, the didn't realize that they hadn't disconnected the radio properly on their end before there was a heated discussion about using herself and her siblings as science experiments to help the human race. They never even guessed that she'd over heard everything until she ghosted them which was soon afterwards, naturally.
Natisa could locate all of them, but they couldn't locate her. In fact, tonight was the closest they'd been to her, unknowingly, for a year or so. That didn't sit well with her because it might have been that she'd been betrayed.
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