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Chapter Eleven

Having fled from the dangerous situation they had been in with the two soldiers that were positioned in areas to see about taking down Cohra in order to get herself, as well as Mariah, away from him, Marion picked their pace up down the paths in the jungle they were moving on in case there were other humans out there that were only in the area to see about taking her away from her mate by whatever means necessary. She had to do whatever she could in order to get them to safety and be prepared to shoot her gun that he had given to her if she needed to. Her eyes scanned the area while they were running, watching for any sign of men to be hiding and ready to pounce on them.

"We need to keep running at the pace we are going at, Cohra." Marion said, calling towards Cohra while he was running a little ahead of her with their daughter, Mariah, on his back with her arms wrapped around his neck. "If we can keep going like we are, we should be able to get to the house without anymore human soldiers getting in the way of us getting their safe and soundly."

"Don't worry about it, Marion." Cohra replied, keeping the speed he was going at since the weight from their adoptive child wasn't bringing him down at all. "We are almost there now and, once we get there, we can get to work at seeing about fixing up whatever needs to have work done to it and then see about looking into the prospect of trying to make it into town in order to get the supplies we need."

The idea of them going to town for anything they needed was a little nerve wrecking to her. There were probably already lots of fliers of her image out in the cities in the area for people to report to the authorities if they saw her out anywhere so they could see about getting her away from someone who they said was holding her against her will when she wanted to be at Cohra's side. How could she possible go into the city without fear of someone seeing her and reporting her to the police that were looking for her?

The notion seemed to be a little too unrealistic for her to be following. It didn't seem possible for her to do that and not get caught by someone else.

Shifting her attention away from the thoughts running through her head, her eyes caught sight of the house that Cohra had said they could move into when he brought himself to a gentle stop and lowered Mariah down to the ground. Marion let her eyes dance over the place, taking in the decent size of it for their young family, and found it to be the right size for them. Her focus was taken away from it to being on Mariah when she had begun to tug on her hand some from where she was. She found her to be smiling and speaking to her with excitement in her childlike voice.

"Let's go inside, mama." Mariah said, happily. "I want to show you where my room is."

"How about you head on inside and I meet you in your room, Mariah?" Marion asked, gently. "I need to speak with papa for just a moment." She watched the little girl nod her head and dash inside of the house through the door. Once she was gone, Marion let out a soft breath in her voice before she looked to Cohra and addressed him. "I think that you made the right choice with picking this house, Cohra."

"I am glad you think so, Marion." He spoke with some relief in his voice towards her. His gaze looked to her through his mask while he put his arm around her body. "I was a little worried for a moment there that you were not going to be happy with the choice I made when it came to picking out a place for us to stay at."

"I will admit that I was a little concerned at first."

"Why do you say that?"

"Well...I wasn't sure if the place would be around a lot of activity in the area. I didn't want it to be near a lot of houses."

"Do you like being off away from the others?"

"It would just make it easier for us to be out here like this than living in the city I am from where the houses are right on top of one another."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because here I wouldn't have neighbors to try and explain as to why you look the way you do. If there were neighbors around us like they are in the city, I am pretty sure that I would have to come up with a good explaination in order to keep them from reporting that they saw me to the police."

"Soon enough that won't be an issue at all, Marion."

"How do you figure that?"

"As the invasion grows and more of my kind comes to this planet to take over it once again, claiming mates for them to start families with, the yautja will work with one another to ensure that none of us or our mates are singled out by your kind. The growth of our numbers will make things much easier for us in the days to come, and I am pretty confident that the soldiers that came off the ship with the elder are already at work at making their presence known in the jungle as they start heading towards the city."

"You don't think that any of them would harm any of the innocent people in the cities near her...do you?"

"As long as the humans don't try to do anything that would motivate them in seeing about lashing out at them, I don't think there is a reason to worry."

"I just-"

The sound of Mariah's voice calling out to her had her attention to move with Cohra's focus to where there was a window on the second story in time to see Mariah smiling down at them from where she was. The sight brought a smile to her face and gave a nod to her before calling up to her.

"I'll be up in just a moment!"

She watched Mariah move herself away from the window before her attention went to go back to the conversation she was having with Cohra only to find him heading inside of the house to start doing some work on it. Finding herself left with the thoughts she had at the moment, she proceeded to follow him inside and go check on her daughter on the upper floor of the house where she had called down to her from.