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I practically screech, but he covers my mouth again.
    “Okay, since you can’t seem to get this through your pretty little head, let’s try again.”
    I try to shake my head because it hurts, because I’m wearing an open robe in front of this strange man, because Hal is the first person to ever see me naked and I’m completely embarrassed. Waves of humiliation wash over me that he saw me here. Why did I think I could get away with masturbating? What the hell was that? Couldn’t I have waited until later, when I was sure everyone was asleep or busy?
    He ignores my fussing and starts talking.
    “Do you know what a shifter is?”
    I try not to roll my eyes.
    Shifter: myth, fantasy, made-up-stories from old Earth days.
    “I’ll take that look of stupidity on your face as a ‘yes,’” Hal says, and keeps talking. “The Taneyemms look like humans, but they aren’t. Wonder why they’re all so fucking tall? Sorry, darling, they aren’t men or women. They’re fucking dragons.”
    And Hal just went crazy.
    Insane.
    Am I really going to fall for this stupid story? Oh, I’ll listen to him and I’ll hear whatever he has to say, but dragons?
    Fuck me.
    “They can shift between each state of being. Sometimes they’re human, sometimes they’re not. Most of the crew is Taneyemm, which means if they get really pissed off, they’ll go down into the arena and fight each other.”
    My eyes go wide.
    “Oh yeah,” he says dryly. “The spaceship has a battle arena for the dragons. Lovely stuff.”
    Maybe he’s not joking after all.
    “Dragons are tricky things and they don’t like to be called out on it. You’ll find out soon enough when we reach Taneyemm, but I’m telling you now because, hello, you’re awake and obviously horny. Fuck, it’s a damn good thing I found you before Jenika. She would have been riding your face before you knew what was happening.”
    Do my eyes roll back in my head? I feel like they do. I get the most perfect visual of her stripping slowly before climbing up on my body, but Hal must know what I’m thinking because he slaps me.
    “None of that, now. None of that.”
    He frees me again, but this time, I just stare at him.
    “Dragons? Really?” I ask. I tie the front of my robe as I start clucking at him. Stream-of-consciousness is not the best way to address a serious issue like this, but even though I think he’s insane, it would appear that Hal is not joking about the shifter bit.
    “Alien dragons,” he corrects me.
    Then something hits me.
    “Hal,” I say slowly. “Why do they need human females?”
    He raises an eyebrow.
    “Why does anyone?”
    “So they want to fuck us, is that it? They want to breed with us?” How sick is that? Am I some sort of exotic delicacy? Oh, shit. Am I going to be locked away and kept as a baby maker? Are they going to take my babies? What’s going to happen to me?
    “Stop whatever you’re thinking and sit down.” Hal motions to the bed and I do as he says. He goes into the bathroom and makes me a glass of water, then brings it over. “Drink,” he says, and pushes the glass in my face.
    I do as Hal commands, already finding it easy to obey him mindlessly. After years of caring for everyone around me, being able to just let him take control is pretty damn nice.
    The water feels cool in my throat and when I finish half the glass, I hand it back.
    “The whole thing,” Hal says sternly, and I obey. “You’re going to get dehydrated if you don’t. We have four years to whip you into shape and I don’t plan to spend it with you looking like you’re starving the whole damn time.”
    When I finish the whole glass, I hand it back to Hal. He places it on one of the built-in shelves and turns back to me.
    “Rule number one,” he says. “Do not freak out. Things are very different in Taneyemm and they’re very different on the ship. You are not in charge. What you want doesn’t matter. You can’t freak out about it, though, or they’ll