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"English human speech"

"Alien/Prawn speech"

It was another half an hour before either of them moved. Dingane was sitting as still as he could, and he was almost lulled into sleep by the sounds outside of his shack. It was the girl, Kagiso, who made the first move. She started to move away from him, rocking the small bed gently with her effort. Dingane retracted his arm, shuffling slightly away from her as she stood, stretching. Most of her skeletal structure let their protests be known through the various creaks and pops as she stretched. She sighed, turning around the face Dingane with a small smile on her face.

"Do you have anything to eat around here?" she asked him, shifting her weight to her other leg, resting her hand on her hip. He stood up as well, clicking quietly to himself as he rummaged through the broken and cluttered shelves and cabinets that were scattered around his apartment. He pulled three cans of cat food and one bottle of water out of the junk he had gathered in his shack.

"This is all I have." He said, and Kagiso walked forward, her ripped and dirty shoes scuffing the floor with each step. She stood beside him, looking down at the cans of cat food before looking towards the water.

"I think that I can deal." She said, and she reached for a can. She held it up, looking at the label. Dingane watched her as she popped open the top. She sniffed it as her eyes changed color, and soon enough scales were flowing over her neck and upwards, signifying that her body was changing. She looked at Dingane as he neatly took away the can, holding it behind him as he watched her turn back to her human self.

"Does this mean I can't have it?" she asked, and he shook his head, his curiosity spiking. He held the can out to her again, watching as her eyes were the first thing to change, and she reached out for the can again, her palm upwards and waiting.

"This only means I have to go get more…and I don't want to leave you by yourself anymore." He said, and she closed her fingers around the can, her amber eyes locked onto his. She nodded, her body shifting around the can. He plucked it out of her grasp again, a plan forming in his mind.

"How often do you…change?" he asked, and the girl paused, thinking, as her body shifted to human form. Her eyes never changed back, though, as she looked from the ceiling back to the prawn in front of her.

"I really don't know." She said, and Dingane sighed, shaking his head. Kagiso watched as he turned towards the door, making sure it was tightly closed, before he turned back towards her.

"I think I know what triggers your….change." he said, and she cocked her head slightly to the side, her eyes still locked on Dingane's. He moved forward, still holding onto the can of cat food, but he wasn't thinking about it anymore. He stopped a few feet away from her, the can held loosely in his hand.

"You're emotions trigger it." He said, and she gasped, backing up a step. There was a flicker of blue in her eyes, and then it was gone. He clicked quietly to himself as he turned back towards one of his set of shelves. She reached for an object that was on the top of it, and he turned back towards her, holding it loosely in his hand.

"What is that?" she asked, and Dingane lifted the object up, showing a cracked and worn looking heart monitor. He held it out to Kagiso, and she took it, turning it in her hands to see it completely.

"Why do I need this?" she asked, and Dingane clicked quietly to himself as he put the opened can of cat food on the broken crate, his eyes locked onto the heart monitor.

"This will tell us when you are close to changing. I would like it if you could change without using fear or another emotion." He said, and she shook her head in agreement, slipping it over her wrist. It had an elastic band that was almost all the way intact, and she made sure it wouldn't fall off as she prepared for what Dingane would ask her to do.

"If its my emotions that trigger the change, then why do I change when I try to eat?" she asked him, and he looked towards the food, then back at her.

"Because your excited for food. This causes your body to want to change to adapt to the food offered. If I had a hamburger here, for example, I think you would of stayed human." He said, and she nodded, her eyes locking on the food. Her eyes changed first, and the heart monitor started to beep, alerting the two to the change in her pulse. She closed her eyes, breathing slowly and deeply, and the heart monitor started to slow down.

"Its so difficult, Dingane." She said, and she opened her eyes, looking at the prawn with tears forming. He closed his own eyes, thinking over the last three years. Yes, it is difficult.

"I know its difficult, but I know you can do it. It may mean the difference between life and death." He said, and she wiped at her eyes with her hands, looking at the can with a new determination.

"Lets try again." She said.

At the MNU agency, the soldiers were returning from their fruitless search of District 10. They all waited for the humvees to roll to a stop before unloading. None of them were very anxious about seeing their boss after this time.

"What do you mean, she wasn't there?! That's were we lost her signal!" screamed one of the lab technicians. The soldiers turned with mild interest to see who was being yelled at, sniggered at the ridiculous scene before them. The tiny lab worker held up a metallic object before her large boss, almost as if that object was going to stop him from mauling her.

"She must of figured out she was being tracked, sir. We found it outside of the District." She said, and the boss pinched the bridge of his nose, sighing his red complexion turned towards its normal pale color, and his lab coat was stained with suspicious fluids. The soldiers started to file away, bored with the show. The lab worker turned and tried to flee, but a grunt from her boss made her stop.

"If we can't find her…" he said, and he steered the worker by her elbow towards a sector of the building she hadn't even seen for all of her clearance. There was a brief ride in an elevator, and then they stopped outside of the holding cells that were in the basement, below the lab. The boss cleared them, and they walked in, the worker jumping at every noise and body that flung itself at them, held back only by dirty safety glass. They stopped outside of the last cell, number 87416B.

"Maybe he can." He said, and he released the woman's elbow, causing her to ram her shoulder into the glass separating her and the prisoner. She shrank away, her fear spiking, as nothing happened inside the cell.

"There's no one-" she started to say, but her boss held out a paper, pointing towards the door.

"Just wait." He said, and she sighed, readjusting her goggles as she looked back towards the glass. Inside the cell, the lights flickered, once, and in the brief lapse of light, she saw something move around. When the lights came back on, the movement stopped, and she moved closer to the glass, curious. The lights flickered again, and a face was pressed close to the glass, its amber eyes tinged slightly red and it shell casing red rimmed. The lights returned to normal as the face disappeared.

"Are you sure?" she asked, and she looked over the number again as her boss turned back down the way they had come. He paused, glancing over his shoulder at the cell behind her. The prawn that was pressed against the glass was watching her with red tinted eyes as she moved closer to the man. He looked towards the woman, noting that she had no idea that she was being watched.

"Absolutely positive." He said, and the two of them left the holding cells, the man a few steps ahead of the woman as she suppressed the chills.