Deleen sat alone she had bathed for hours but try as she might she couldn't bring herself to feel clean, the rest of the women had done the same they had scrubbed so hard that they bruised themselves.
She was tempted to tell the Humans that she had been the deciding vote in the war, that it was she who had ordered the Human's extermination.
The truth was that she couldn't have done so alone, but if it meant that the Humans would kill her then so be it, she knew that it wouldn't be a quick death but at least it would end.
The room was heavy, and the children in the room clung tightly to their mothers- aunts, and sisters as they tried to comfort them, the youngest amongst them didn't understand what was going on until...
Deleen stopped thinking the reality of the situation was too painful, too cruel for her to think about.
She had grown to doubt her decision and while she did wish t stop the war, now she wished that the worrier cast had finished it faster.
And yet even now she understood that the men that had done those things to her, to the women around her, were manipulated by that creature.
She had seen the look in its eyes before, it was the same look that she once had, that the worrier cast had.
It knew that it had all the power and understood that no matter what anyone said or did no one could stop it from doing what it wanted.
Something dropped from the ceiling and on it were the words place your hand on the spot.
Deleen did as the thing said and found herself looking at the familiar faces of some of the women that she had grown up with and some that she had seen grow into young women.
"I am generous, feel free to do what you want during your free time, if you need anything simply ask for it." the voice of the creature said to them but it wasn't in the room this time.
For a long moment, Deleen didn't say anything she just looked at the faces of the people she believed that she would never see again.
"Can I go there?" she said to herself in a low voice even before the words left her mouth she found a hole opened up next to her.
"Step inside, you will have to return so that you may meet your partner again when he comes to meet you again." the voice of the creature said to her, but this time she heard it inside of her head.
In an empty room, one of the Vorlons glided itself into the empty room.
"Why have you gotten involved?" it said to the man who stood in front of it.
"Why wouldn't I have gotten involved?"
"You and I have seen the results of this game of yours, this time they would have completely died out, you know that I don't lie."
"It is I who should be asking why you are here?" the man asked the Vorlon.
"The timeline has been broken and all has become uncertain, your presence here only complicates things." the Vorlon said to the man who just looked at it.
"I stopped your favorite children's extinction because I involved myself in this mess you made."
"How long does that race have before it completely loses its ability to reproduce, and clone themselves?' the man asked the Vorlon who just remained silent.
"The cycle must be restored." the Vorlon said to the man who only looked at it.
"I know, but it can not and will not be the cycle that you created." The man said to the Vorlon who didn't say anything instead it turned around and left the room.
"Before you leave, can you answer me just one thing?"
"What were you planning to do, after the Minbari destroyed the Earth?"
"The moment they fulfilled their mission, would have sealed their fate, so what were you planning after that?" he asked the Vorlon who just walked out of the room.
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On Earth the president listened to the people around her, everyone was arguing about what ships or space stations should be taken apart so that they can be studied and which should be left alone.
"Stop." Elizabeth said to everyone in the room slowly everyone stopped arguing before they all turned to look at her.
'Why is this even a problem?" she asked everyone hoping that someone could answer her question.
'Yes." one of the representatives of the engineers said before he quickly walked to her side and handed her a tablet.
"We found that every time we take anything apart it becomes impossible to put back on the ship,"
"For whatever reason, we can take more parts of the ship or space stations and connect them after we removed them, but we cont just put them back where we removed them." the engineer said to her.
"I see." Elizabeth said as she understood what the man was saying to her.
If they removed something important so that they study it and something in the space stations or ships is destroyed or shut off then they would have no way of fixing the problem.
"What about the resources we were given?" she asked everyone.
'There's more than enough for us to rebuild our fleet, but it won't make a difference unless we can come up with something that can help us fight back." one of the generals answered her.
Elizabeth felt the weight of responsibility, she wished that she had an answer, but unless they did something the day that enough people are born will come and their only ally will be gone.
She decided to change the subject for now.
"How are the prisoners doing?" she asked everyone.
'They are doing anything to pass the time, but we want to use some of them to see if we can make some biological weapons." the general said to her.
'I asked what they were doing, not what you planned to do with them." Elizabeth said to the general who only hardened the look in his eyes.
"I know, but any attempts that we make to take anyone away from their villages that thing sends his drones or it stops us from doing so." the general said to her.
"That's because they're his prisoner," Elizabeth answered the general.
Yet he allows Human men to have." the general began only for the two of them to lock eyes and the man instantly knew that he should remain silent.
"he's allowing them to get their revenge, without spilling any more blood." she said to the general.