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walked across the room to a dresser. The front of the wooden dresser had cerulean blue panels. The man reached through the blue, the material parting around his hand. He then withdrew his hand with another larger lock in hand. Pacing back over, Nova knelt in front of me and wrapped it around my ankle and then the other end around the leg of the cot. “These locks were designed to constrict the more you struggle against it. So if you like blood being able to flow to your foot, I suggest you don’t try to escape again,” he said in a plain tone. Nova stood then, looking down at me before walking away as he spoke, “We’re attacking your people soon. They’ve opened a new mine just outside the village, barely outside the jungle.”
    My eyes followed him as he sat on the edge of his large plush bed. New mining site? It had to be the small mine I had overheard some crew members talking about when I took the tour of the big site. Even though it was a small mine being opened on the side, there would be a lot of crew members there because there always were the first few days of any expedition to get things going. A lot of crew members meant a lot of lives that could be lost. “It’s just a small mine, couldn’t you just leave them alone?” I asked, trying to think of anything to get him to not attack the mine. If I could protect human lives, I was going to. It was just hard to do much of anything when you were chained inside a hut.
    “It doesn’t matter the size. A mine is a mine, and they are polluting the air by using explosives. Above all, it’s to make a statement that my tribe will not be tolerating anymore destruction,” he told me, glaring over at me.
    “They are innocent lives,” I pressed, “The miners are just doing their job, trying to provide for their families.”
    “And?” Nova snapped. “I’m trying to protect my people. Don’t try to act like you know what is happening on Shaviro. You clearly do not know and you speak with great ignorance.”
    I glared at him. I may not know what was going on exactly, but I had seen plenty first hand— like being taken prisoner when I am not in their war . These Navani people were far from innocent little creatures, and from what I had seen and heard, the Navani were the ones causing the violence. How in the hell did he expect me to believe any different? I couldn’t just give up though, those miners were my employees. “They aren’t hurting anyone though. Why not spare them?”
    “They are hurting my tribe’s future generations by drilling away our planet. They are a part of a colony that attacks and kills our innocent civilians. This isn’t just a feud, this is a war; which means revenge and retaliation. Nothing you can say will change my mind because you do not know the hardships my people have faced with the human colonists. You cannot begin to speak intelligently on the subject since you do not know.”
    “Have you never heard the phrase ‘an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind’?” I questioned. “If you hurt over something others are doing, you don’t just go back and do the same thing. It makes you just as bad as them.”
    “ Enough! ” he snapped once again. “I’ve had it with your talking. Be quiet and keep your thoughts to yourself. I don’t want to hear another word on it; you’re pissing me off.” Nova then rose from his spot on his bed and walked through the door and slammed it behind him. My heart sank. Those poor miners…

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    Nova
    I left the hut in a huff, completely enraged by the sheer ignorance of that human. She dared to speak to me like that? Who the hell did she think she was? Julia certainly wasn’t in a position to be speaking to me like that, I could kill her any moment I wanted to. A dead body shipped to Harp would make the same impact as any other plans we had for her. I tried to ease my anger though as I approached the men, not wanting to go into battle with a distracted mind. Julia had seriously plucked a