"Human?" Kes thought she didn't understand the girl right. "I told you that you wouldn't know who they are." "No, I do." Kes answered. "How?" The girl asked curiously. "It's a long story but I was rescued by a ship of humans that had got transported to this quadrant by mistake, they're now trying to find their way back." Kes explained. "That's how you got to the surface, I was wondering about that." "Wait, how did you know that we lived under the surface?" The girl's face got very sad, "These ships once went to your homeworld maybe a year ago and took about 40 Ocampa, that's how I learned that I'm also part Ocampa." The girl turned her head around so that Kes could see ears that looked almost like her own. Kes was stunned, "Where do these ships go?" She asked. "You've probably already figured out that these are prison ships, but they go to different slave worlds and auction the prisoners they capture off." The girl said. "How awful, but you sound like you know a lot about this, why?" To Kes this was beginning to remind her of being a slave of the Kazon. The girl smiled at this question, "I have a major reputation along this ship and most slave worlds, I've been sold nine different times but I've killed my master each time, so no one wants me. Besides the life of just dying slowly in this room is much better than having to become a slave." Either choice sounded gruesome, Kes thought to herself but just kept asking questions; "If you're a super soldier why are you on this little slave ship?" "I was the property of the scientist who went to Earth originally and took me, I was with him almost 5 years, he had almost perfected me he said, then he crossed paths with this ship, they told him payment was expected, it was only he and I on the ship so he had no choice but to let me go." "That's so sad." Kes said, "I was a slave of the Kazon for a month after escaping my underground homeworld, in that short time I forgot almost all the good parts of home, I can't imagine being a slave and lab experiment for so long." At that point the cell door opened and in came 3 guards, one holding a needle-like thing. One swiftly went over to Kes and held her, and the other went over to the girl and held her. Kes tried to wrestle out of the man's grip until she heard a voice in her head, It's alright, don't resist. Kes looked over at the girl who the other guard was sticking a needle in her arm, injecting something, then he came to Kes, she stopped fighting and let the man poke the thing in her arm, it hurt just a little but not much. Then all three guards were gone. "What was that?" Kes asked as she rubbed the arm where they had injected her. "Nutrients, some prisoners would rather starve themselves so they just inject it to us directly." Kes looked to the girl a moment, she was about to turn her gaze when she noticed that the girl's eyes were getting foggy. "What's wrong?" She asked. But in answer the girl's body began to shake violently.