Of One Soul

“What do we do?” Back in Bluewater, Richard abandoned a rune he was working on and flew into the sky. If the broodmother didn’t have a solution to her pain, he would fly towards the reaper base and aim straight for the enemy mothership. He refused to let her suffer extreme pain, and if she truly did lose control the war was lost anyway.

In a rare instance, she truly had no response. There was nothing about such pain commands or other control mechanisms in her genetic memory, so he would have to find a way himself.

He frowned, “Transfer everything you do know to me, I’ll analyse it!”

Moments later, he received a flood of information. At the same time, the reapers sent another message through the flying scouts. In the...