I was out on my morning jog, feeling wonderful and brand new as the air blew my golden hair back. It swooshed back and forth in a pony tail, the loose pieces hitting me in the face. Sure it was nothing compared to that amazing thrill of flying but it had it's high points. I ran, high on glee, forgetting all my troubles.
I was so happy I barely noticed the skinny pathetic body on the ground below me.
"I'm sorry, Ma'am." I said to the skinny little thing, as i tipped over her tiny body. She was no ma'am though. God, she may have been younger then me. Such a tiny pathetic little thing.
"That is alright." She said her voice almost robotic. Still, in it I heard the slightest shake of fear. What did she have to fear of me? I wasn't a danger. Unless she was yeerk of course. Then I'd kick her skinny little butt.
"What are you doing lying in the middle of the sidewalk, hun?" I asked, my voice entering that sweet tone one gets when handling a very little child.
"You...your one of them aren't you?" She said pointing accusingly at me.
"What!" I said, taken aback. One of what....a yeerk? Was this a former controller. Was this someone who had been driven insane by the horrible yeerks.
"Your one of the Savior's aren't you?" She said her voice tiny like a little girls.
I furrowed my brow in confusing, "A what? A savior?"
She looked up, a look of joy on her face. Staring at her face I wondered if I should believe her. Dark lines were under her eyes, as though perhaps she was a junkie and her eyes themselves were wild and crazy and filled with an emotion I cannot put my finger on. I couldn't understand her eyes and that scared me. When I was little daddy always said that when you met a person you could tell everything about their personality just from looking at their eyes. "Truth," He used to say, "is in the eyes."
"A savior! The one that will save the other slaves from the aliens! You are one them, no?" There was a look of happiness on her face. The horribly pathetic face had perked up. I looked in her eyes but they hid any understanding from me.
Still something about her perked up face made me want to believe her. "Yes, yes." I trusted her face. I felt some odd need to believe her.
"Come with me I will let you meet the other "saviors"." I led her along not knowing what had come over me but the need to trust her was great. I led her toward Cassie's barn. It was a long walk but she kept up with me just fine.
"Here we are." I said. After a long, yet silent, walk, we had reached the barn.
"Thank you dear." She said her voice totally changing into a deep and menacing tone.
I felt the sharp pain of a dracon beam shoot into my back. I, in my dying moments, heard her quickly dial a number on her cell phone.
"Yes I've got another. I have almost all of them even the andalite. He was hard to catch. All I need now is the other girl, but this one lead me right to her."
Tears pierced my eyes. The other were died, all dead. Only Cassie remained alive, for now. I looked up at my killer's eyes and saw what I could not see before. I looked and I saw evil.