Krygan's Pets Pt. 03

In a small chamber a short distance from their cell the power was out. As the power returned three computer screens began to slowly come back online. From across the station a pair of ultach technicians responded to a sudden power surge that had apparently interrupted data flow and computer processing in one of their detention cell monitoring stations.

Lord Holder Vack and his Donadar were speaking when oddly they noticed that Jennifer had fallen back into the bed with her eyes closed and was holding her head. Q-Iythe frowned.

"She appears to have a strong headache. Should I send in a medical probe to help her out?"

Krygan shook his head.

"Wait a bit. Those probes have tools, which she might attempt to procure in an effort to affect escape. But more to the point, I believe that if we send her aid she'll get suspicious that she is indeed being monitored. This one is clever. The headache malady may well be an act. A test of our compliance with the agreed upon lack of monitoring within their cell."

The Donadar nodded and grinned.

"I must say my Lord Holder, I do admire her cunning if indeed she has chosen so subtle a test. But it also concerns me. It means that in spite of my data gathering and studying this species for their mental and emotional states, I may have sorely under estimated them as a whole."

Krygan nodded.

"It appears that you might have. I on the other hand have no illusions about these beings. They're soft and weak on the outside. It stands to reason that their only true asset is their mental capacity and will power. After all they had dominion over their entire planet."

Q-Iythe looked a bit confused.

"As do we my Lord. What is the comparative point?"

Krygan laughed.

"Oh do we now? Donadar Q-Iythe, if you truly believe that perhaps I should send you on a specimen gathering field trip to Vocknor region or Kathoss Island or the Peladariac Ice Sheets? No wait, I have it. You could take a trip for me to gather Kreban Roots by the geothermal springs of the Daladross Desert. I'll send an escort of fifty heavily armed shock troops. How long do you think that the screams of these ultach would last before you all perished?"

"My Lord Holder Vack, forgive me in my assertion. I did not mean to belittle our indigenous dangers. I merely suggested that we do have absolute domain on our home planet and so too on many other worlds and slave planets. These humans are not so dissimilar, at least on their own tiny world."

"What's the matter Donadar? The springs of the desert don't suit you? Vocknor's rain forest is somehow not appealing to this notion of our absolute dominion? Or perhaps the Pelan nomadic hordes of the Ice Sheets are a reminder of our biggest difference? We do not hold absolute dominion of our world. There are other sentient nasty creatures with successfully held territories or regions on Lonorangg!"

He was about to respond when a soldier came forward and bowed to Krygan.

"Your report?"

"My Lord Uvosh is in a detention cell. And as we placed him into the cell there was a power surge that knocked out computers at a monitoring station near his cell."

Q-Iythe turned his head to look at the soldier and then to Krygan.

"My Lord, it would appear that Chamberlain Drostoy may have attempted to sabotage any information probing in his cell. Which could indicate a suicidal device. I recommend gassing his cell and sending a full chemical and mechanical sweeper team of probes into the room before we vent and begin dealing with your guest?"

Krygan nodded.

"A good suggestion Donadar. Make it happen. When you've secured Uvosh I wish for him to experience the full treatment. Draw it out for a few weeks. Maim, torment, debilitate, but do not kill him. I wish for him to return to the Chamberlain with a message. You may leave now Q-Iythe."

The Donadar bowed and without another word turned and left the office. The soldier remained in position.

"What of the other gossips?"

The soldier held out a large metal cylinder.

"We tracked them down and removed these as you requested my Lord Holder."

He took the canister of what he knew to be tongues from those who had informed the Chamberlain of little details about the comings and goings of his palace.

"Very good. Though I didn't actually tell you to take these."

"No sir you did not my Lord Holder. But Commander Velix said that you would appreciate the matter done with artistic flair my Lord."

"I see. What else has he done with the spies in question?"

"He took the liberty of burning the mark of property of the Chamberlain Drostoy on each one's forehead my Lord."

Krygan laughed and handed him back the cylinder.

"Tell him to return these with the spies. After all, we wouldn't want to damage the good Chamberlain's property too much now would we soldier?"

"No sir my Lord."

"Oh and see to it that the nerves are damaged beyond repair. I don't want Drostoy reattaching their tongues and making use of their speaking abilities in the future."

"As you wish my Lord Holder."

He dismissed the soldier and returned his gaze to the monitor. On the screen other women had gathered around the bunk that Jennifer rested on. He turned up the volume to listen in.

Melissa was by her side.

"Are you okay? You look awful."

Kelly was there too.

"Bad headache?"

Jennifer smiled and nodded. Her pain was actually slowly starting to subside.

"I'm fine. Just a bit of a headache. It'll pass soon. Thanks though."

She glanced around. Something felt wrong or off. She wondered if the aliens might still be monitoring them or listening in on their conversations. More importantly, how could she relay her suspicions without giving this away?

She glanced at Melissa and took a chance.

"Did you ever read Catcher in the Rye when you were growing up?"

Melissa shrugged.

"Sure. I had to for school. But that was a while ago. Why do you ask?"

"Don't give away the answer but do you remember what the lead character thought about most people being in society?"

Melissa shrugged and thought for a moment. Salinger's main character was obsessed with the notion that almost everyone was a "phony" as he worded it. Deceptive and fake in their actions versus their beliefs. She glanced back at Jennifer and considered what she was asking and why. She nodded.

"Yeah I remember."

"Well I believe that he would describe our host in that context. Do you understand?"

Kelly looked confused, but Melissa nodded in awareness. Somehow Jennifer had figured something out about the aliens. Perhaps they were not free to discus things casually and were still being monitored. She nodded.

"Yes. I get your point entirely."

"Well I don't. What are you two talking about?"

Melissa shrugged.

"Nothing really. Not worth repeating at the moment Kelly. Just take my word for it." She winked and Kelly seemed to catch the hint. She glanced briefly around the room and nodded.

"Oh, okay. So how's your head now?"

Krygan frowned. Something was going on. Perhaps Jennifer suspected that they were still being monitored. The reference to whatever "Catcher in the Rye" was had thrown him for a loop.

There was no way to know what these women were discussing without dissecting a brain and then monitoring and reconstructing their individual memories and thought patterns. That could take weeks or even months.

He saw the eye movements from the smallest one with the light orange hair and the way she accepted their dismissal as if discovering something herself. He tuned in even more heavily but was now confounded and trying to think about a way to find out what "Catcher in the Rye" referenced? Perhaps one of the other prisoners?

Of course! He'd have the Donadar get the information from one of the other cells. He relaxed and continued to pay close attention to the monitor.

"So here we are. It's day one. I think that as soon as we have some food in our system we'll think better." Jennifer said.

Amanda looked over at them and smiled.

"How'd you guys sleep?"

Julie shrugged.

"Oddly I don't remember anything from my sleep. It's like my mind is entirely shut down. Must be the way that they knock us out."

Amanda nodded.

"Same here. So Jennifer, we have ten days. We try it we get a deluxe cell with all the amenities. We fail and the porn star pervert of aliens torments us, tortures us, or maybe just fucks us all with his giant painful winky eh?"

Krygan began searching his mental database for that reference. In all of his years at the academy he'd never heard of such a star. He wondered what a Porn star was? Perhaps a pulsar? That would make sense.

A pulsing star, and a pulsing reproductive organ. She had called it a winky. The process or winking and blinking the eyes produces a similar affect to a pulse of light. Therefore it had to be a pulsar reference. Interesting he thought as he continued to listen to their conversation.

"Anyway," Julie continued, "What are you three chatting about over there?"

Kelly smiled.

"Nothing really. Just talking. Jennifer had a headache but it's a little better now she says. We're just waiting for something to eat. The cell is pretty boring if you don't speak."

Amanda nodded.

"Makes me wanna turn lesbian just to have some fun." She laughed and the others laughed with her.

"Lesbian" was another term that eluded the Lord Holder. He shrugged. Perhaps the conversation would shed more light on it?

Kelly shook her head.

"You're always thinking with your libido Amanda."

The girl made a dramatic and over emphasized gesture of grabbing her breasts and cupping them together and then apart, and pinching and pulling her nipples. Then arched her back and moaned.

"Ouuuh Baby! Yes!"

That had everyone including Amanda laughing hard and Krygan smiled as he watched the alien group bantering.

Melissa was a bit less jovial than the others and looked at Jennifer who nodded and returned the look.

"I'm still a bit sore in the head. If you guys don't mind I'm going to try to get a natural sleep for a little while? Wake me if the food sphere comes and I'm still resting okay?"

Melissa nodded.

"Sure thing. I'm going to do the same."

Kelly patted Jennifer on the upper thigh.

"Get some rest. I'm sure you'll feel better soon."

Julie shrugged.

"We'll try to hold down the noise."

Amanda frowned and reached down between her legs to rub her crotch a few times.

"Speak for yourself girls. I may have to alleviate some tension."

Kelly scowled at her.

"Alleviate it quietly Amanda!"

Amanda winked.

"Whatsa-matter? Afraid I'm a screamer?"

Kelly rolled her eyes and went over to join Julie on her rack. The two began to speak softly about where they grew up and speculated on where some of the other captives from other cells were from.

Amanda was no longer joking and had actually begun to masturbate on her rack as she laid back and rubbed and probed herself with wet horny fingers.

But to her credit her gasps and groans were very soft and quiet. Kelly had her back to Amanda and sat cross-legged on the bunk with Julie. She glanced back at Amanda and shook her head. But seemed satisfied that Amanda had enough decorum not to get too loud with her little self-pleasuring distraction.

Julie, who was facing Kelly, kept glancing past her now and then as Amanda moved and writhed and moaned quietly behind where Kelly sat but on the next bunk.

Krygan listened to the two women for a while but then tired of their conversation. He focused the lens view instead on the masturbating woman and noted her nerve spots. Paying attention to her clitoris when it was visible and to the way in which she stroked and probed herself. Then he soon had enough information and got bored with monitoring the cell. He shut the screen and sound off and returned to his other duties for the time being.

Later he'd have the Donadar learn what this "Catcher in the Rye" thing was all about. But for now it was not that important. He sat back and began to consider what sort of message he would leave with Uvosh to that smug and annoying Chamberlain.

It had been a while since Jennifer had ever tried to read a girlfriend's mind. She had never tried to send a thought or communicate with another person using just her mind. Her gift didn't work like that. At least that was what she had told herself for years. Now she wondered if she could do both. Read Melissa's mind and also send it a message or an image? Perhaps it was possible.

She wasn't sure but she had to try. She began to concentrate. The grey and dark swirling cloud pattern filled her mind in what felt like the backs of her eyes with her lids closed. She concentrated and focused on Melissa and her eyes. Melissa had brown eyes and her eyes were the gate to the mind for Jennifer.

As she pictured Melissa's eyes and pressed her mind forward it suddenly moved beyond and entered Melissa's thought stream. She was in!

She prayed that Melissa wouldn't resist the intrusion. Some people could block or make mind reading quite tricky or difficult. But as she scanned through images and memories Melissa seemed to be suddenly aware that she was not alone in her thoughts. An alien and yet familiar presence was in her mind.

On her rack Melissa kept her eyes shut though like Jennifer she was fully conscious. She could sense Jennifer in her head. She tried to suppress her wonder and shock at what was happening. Tried to accept that this was real and not some strange alien mind fuck. It felt real. It felt like Jennifer. Could this even be possible? She tried to relax and focus on Jennifer.

In her head a voice sounded.

"Hello Melissa? Can you feel me?"

Melissa nodded absently then realized that she needed to make her mind acknowledge Jennifer.

"Jennifer? Is that really you? How are you doing this?"

"I've had this gift since I was little but it freaks people out. I've never used it to communicate with anyone. I read a few friends minds here and there. But this is a first for me. Sorry if it's weird. I needed to speak with you in private. So I took a chance and tried this. I can't believe it worked. But it did."

"I'm amazed and freaked out too! I've never had anyone in my head like this. But I'm glad you did. I wanted to find out what the hell is going on with that whole Catcher in the Rye reference? The alien is a phony. I got that. But how so? And how'd you discover it? Did you read his mind?"

"No not yet. I haven't tried that. I was feeling strange when I got up. You guys were still out and groggy so I tried to stretch my mind to see what I could feel. I spotted a monitoring room with a flashing alarm light and computer data, but there were no ultach people watching the monitors. The more strongly I focused my energy the faster the alarm light flashed. The less I did it the slower the light went. That's when it hit me that the monitoring station can tell if someone is using mind waves in a cell. So I killed the light by overloading the circuit and I tried and hopefully succeeded in deleting the data and sending a power surge through their system. If I'm not delusional or insane I think I might have succeeded. So I took this chance with you and me doing the mind thing now."

"That's incredible Jennifer. I wish I had your gift."

"You probably do. Everyone has some degree of precognition. It's just that most people never exercise it. But you have it in there. Anyway, I think that the lord Holder is not being completely straightforward with us. I think he has all kinds of ways to monitor us and only agreed to remove the basic monitors. Like the abandoned monitoring center. But I don't think we're free of being spied on. I think Kelly got it, though I'll have to rest after this before I can attempt to get into Kelly's mind and see if I can get us all this information. If so, then maybe we at last have the privacy to plan things out."

"That's a good idea. So you can read my thoughts eh? Does that include my private thoughts?"

"I'm not spying or actively pulling your memories Melissa. You'd feel it if I tried. Please trust me. I don't like intruding in your head. But this was the only way to communicate in private and I wasn't even sure it could be done."

"That's fine Jennifer. I'm not upset or accusing you of anything. It's just weird having someone else in my mind. I can actually feel you in here."

"This is not easy for me and I might not even be able to do this with the others, so we'll play it careful. But now I'm exhausted. The first time is always the most strenuous. I have to break the mind link and actually rest. But we'll try this some more after I have tested it on Kelly. It'll take some time but we may have a chance to get ahead after all."

"Okay, get some rest Jennifer. Thanks for sharing this with me. We'll keep everything nice and secret from those bastards!"

Jennifer and Melissa each smiled at the same time and then Jennifer broke the link and turned sideways in her bunk to try to relieve her throbbing tired head.

Melissa opened her eyes and glanced at Jennifer and then at the other three. This was the first time that she truly had a strong hope of perhaps getting a leg up on the ultach and their little perverse game. She grinned and rolled over to try to nap as well.