Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #11 February 2015 | Page 13

Hours later, that night a strange ailment took her. At
a glance she saw that the hooded alien had come back
to watch her. She thought he looked worried, and then
wondered if she could really perceive any emotion in a
Saluzian or if she had only imagined that. She burned
with fever and in her delirium the aliens invaded Earth
and there was terror in the human faces she had loved.
“My baby!” someone shouted far away, “Where is it?”
She woke up the next day feeling recovered, but felt
pain when she moved. “What happened?” she asked.
“There is fever among the human slaves. You will be
fine, I hope.” And Jor had not left her that night, but
observed her, until, exhausted, she fell asleep. She woke
up sometimes, and he was still there watching over her.
After Ishtar spent some months in that monotonous
prison, she heard some shouts coming from outside.
They were many human voices together, happy and
angry.
Jor was looking at her from outside of her glass cell.
“It