The hivemind is conquering for me?

The woman in front of me was exceptionally beautiful. She had large blue eyes, a button nose, a sharp jawline and a set of luscious blue lips that matched her skins complexion. I stared at her face a moment coming up with the right words to say to displace the unease that was creeping upon it.

"Well, I have to say. You were right." I said while nodding my head. "About what?" she said raising her eyebrow. "You are way hotter than me." I said, bringing up our first meeting. A pink hue spread on her cheeks before laughing aloud, the stress from the reveal being expelled with it.

After I moment I decided to ask some questions. "So, I take it you are a Sepiidan correct? Forgive me, but I don't understand why you would be killed if that information got out."

Janine let out a long exhale before responding. "Sepiidan females are not allowed to fight. Their whole lives is to fuck men and produce offspring. So to find one fighting, and one that is not a human born is even worse. I would most likely be tortured extensively before death for any information that I have on by parentage."

"Oh your Father was not human?" I asked. "No." Janine said furrowing her brows trying to remember something. "My mother is from an all female race that are extra galactic in origin. They go from galaxy to galaxy hunting strong beings than leave in their highly advanced stealth ships.

One of them, my mother, seemed to have come across my other ,Sepiidan, mother and found her enthralling and had her way with her. Don't ask the details, I'm not sure. All I have on them is the shared biological memory of the race and that is still rather foggy due to me being a female Sepiidan and taking practically all my birth mothers traits.

Oh, on a tangent, I also think thats the reason I like women compared to men. I have no biological urge to mate with males as the impregnation of my mother had no male involved. Anyway thats my origin summed up, stop staring like that."

I had thousands more questions for the Sepiidan, but with Kat and Mindy waiting at the tent, I reserved myself to one, temporarily. "That was, well that is very fascinating Janine. There will be follow ups later, but for know just tell me. Where are your horns, Sepiidans usually have horns from what I've been told."

Janine smiled as she stood up and offered a hand to help me up. Once I was standing and above her eye level, Janine parted her hair and revealed 4 stubs sanded flat. "The pain almost killed me the first time, All the nerve endings being torn like that left me crying for weeks. Eventually however overtime I maintained them so much that they wont grow anymore.

Its better for me to hide my identity under my helmet without having horns grow though them." She said smiling.

I looked at Janine with a pained expression. "I am sorry the empire you reside is so xenophobic that you had to mutilate yourself like that to stay safe." My words of sincerity struck a chord in Janine as her eyes began to moisten. "Don't worry about it, its not your fault after all."

After a couple more minutes, I informed Janine I had to go back, to which she held no complaint, as she was worn out from her overwatch. We walked back to the perimeter of the dig site before heading in different directions. She went back to the ship to pass out in her quarters while I went back to have some more conversations with Mindy and Kathrine.

Arriving back at the tent, I entered and at a glance appeared to be empty. Walking further into the tent, I heard murmurs coming from behind Kathrine's bedroom divider. Getting closer, I was about to express my arrival before hearing a heavy conversation. "-But how do you know if your relationship is on rocky waters? What about your own marriage Kathrine?" Mindy asked.

"My marriage was not out of love from the start sweetheart. Right out of the army, my husband was married into the Hyllus name as a family alliance. The start of the of the relationship was nice, don't get me wrong. We were both wild and we fucked and sucked and hosted orgies all the time. But we could both tell love was never there. Even after I had my children, It never brought us closer.

I love my darlings beyond comprehension, but children are not a glue that can be used to hold a marriage together no matter how hard you want them to be. Truth be told, my husband and I are only together in name. We see each other once or twice a year to maintain appearance then go back to total avoidance."

I could feel this girl talk was heavy and would probably not want to be interrupted, so I left the tent and waited for 5 minutes outside before entering the tent again, louder this time. "Hey all, are you still here?" I ask.

"Ah Apollo, How good of you to finally come back. Where have you been?" Kathrine yelled through the divider. "Oh, I ran into Janine as she just finished her overwatch and got to talking." There was a pause in Kathrine's response before she spoke once more. "Well you definitely were not fucking, that would have taken another 20 minutes minimum. Can you set the table for us handsome?

We still need another 5 minutes to get changed." Kathrine said, as though I had not been gone for close to half an hour.

Women...

Setting the table was easy, but it also meant calling the chief from the ship to bring the food over. Not having a communicator of my own, fearing I would grow addicted, I used Kathrine's that was on her desk. Typing the name Thanatos-Food connected me to an older woman whom I have not seen before.

After talking with the woman for 5 minutes until I could manage to slip in the fact I wanted a specific food brought, did she finally hang up.

After the communication ended, A notification appeared on the screen from 'SWT<3 Hailey.' It was a image document with the headline. "Do you think he will like this, or is it too much?" Others may have been tempted to open it, but I could have care less and simply though. 'Thats nice, they stayed in touch after meeting last week.'

10 minutes later and with the food having just arrived, Kathrine and Mindy left the divider and joined me in by the table. Kathrine was wearing a lowcut blue dress that clung onto her form exceptionally well. It was a little too informal for official meetings and dinners, but for a quiet evening amongst friends? It was fine.

"Looking as gorgeous as ever this evening Kat." I said as I stood up and pulled out her chair. "Stop, handsome, our guest does not need our flirting this evening." Kat said as Mindy, not used to heels, walked over to the table.

Having Kathrine sat down, I walked over to where Mindy was sitting and proceeded to pull her chair out as well. "Its not flirting if what I am saying is genuinely true. I mean Mindy is looking like a 10/10 right now as well right? Its simply a fact." I said as I pushed in her chair while she blushed.

"*Sigh* You and your mouth. Its a good thing you are cute, otherwise you would be doing more harm than good. Now sit." Kathrine said, her eyes stern.

Taking my seat next to Kathrine and opposite Mindy, I said. "So Mindy, I have a little surprise. Our main course this evening is from the leg of the beast you killed while saving my life earlier. The chef tried it and said it was actually very delicious so I am excited for this."

In unison, we took the bowls that were coving our plates off and the rich aroma of the Dino meat, served with vegetables and a creamy sauce, wafted throughout the tent. "Oh my, that smells divine." Kathrine exclaimed. And coming from someone who has lived with noble tastes their whole life, that meant something. "Mindy?" I asked as she simply stared at the plate in front of her.

looking up from the plate, she covered her mouth and said. "I-I cant stop salivating. It smells so good."

I let out a nasal laugh before commenting. "Well you don't need to keep up manners on our account. As is, we are all mercenaries currently and a bit of fancy stuff wont change that, see." I said, throwing a vegetable at Kathrine's head to lower Mindy's worries about eating in front of nobles and their table manners.

"Do that again and our 'arrangement' will cease this moment." Kathrine said as she gazed at me with narrow eyes. "Is that so?" I replied as I leaned on the table and looked at her with a cocky smile. We held each others gaze for a moment before she broke and looked away while whispering.

"No..."