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make it to our Ultimate Passage. To reclaim our Earth. Our lands.”
    “Ultimate Passage is a myth. A myth that’s kept alive by the old ones. I don’t believe we had to make a passage here to this forsaken planet overrun by Kormic miscreants. A planet where we’ve had to spend every moment hiding or fighting off attacks. If we’re from Earth, we should have returned long ago. We are superior to humans. Here we’re sport and victims for the damned native creatures.”
    “It is not a myth. I believe the Sacred Writings.”
    Time for Finn to use some leverage. “Your father has power in the government.”
    “Naturally. He’s one of the Governors-Select.”
    “I’ll do the mission if you’ll have him get me out of the Binding.”
    “Out of the Binding?” You want to nullify your Binding to Alithera?”
    “I don’t want to be Bound to her.”
    “She is fine marrying material. You’ve been Bound to her since you were two years old. The day she was born you were Bound to her. It was proclaimed. The ceremony is in a year, Finn. Your children will be born from those procured from the Third Wave.”
    “No.”
    “You haven’t even heard what the mission entails. What you have to do. Surely you realize how much it matters. I choose to believe that this is your grief acting on you. You need a practitioner to check you out, to verify that you’re sound physically as well as mentally. You don’t seem well.”

Chapter 4
    D ays later , in his living quarters, Finn loosened his collar.
    Kal leaned against the doorjamb. “Humans, especially the female of their species, are dangerous.”
    Finn ignored his cousin’s cautionary words. It had been five days since his grandmother’s passing and three days since he’d grudgingly accepted the mission. Very grudgingly, because he still didn’t want this cursed assignment, even if he had been released from his Binding to Alithera, and even though the mission had been explained to him—in brief.
    “When I joined the service, this wasn’t what I planned to be doing. Posing as a human male to entice females.” He unsnapped his weapon belt.
    “You thought you’d always be wielding a weapon? Killing?” Kal’s skin fluoresced faint orange hues in ripples that traveled from his face to his arms, a sure sign he was becoming irate.
    “I’m a soldier. So yes, something like that. Definitely not this.” Kal’s anger meant nothing to Finn, who concentrated on his pulse. That was the first step in conversion, to lower his heart rate to match a human’s. It wasn’t hard for him, not as hard as it was for others, because he was a quarter human, after all. He bit back the smirk that threatened to appear on his face. He would have to make sure not to let it rise, especially not rapidly, as his wings would burst through the human skin.
    “Do you need the machine?” Kal reached for the equipment used to help them in their human conversion.
    “No, I’ve got this.”
    “Well done, cousin. You’re already sounding authentic.” Kal didn’t let the smile out, but Finn could see it in his eyes. Of course Kal wouldn’t smile. That would be anti-Asazi. The Asazi prided themselves on being stoic and unemotional.
    Finn snorted. Being converted into a human was definitely not how he’d planned to spend his military career. But like a good soldier, he did as directed. It was vital to the Asazi mission. Finn stretched in his newly acquired human skin, looking in the mirror.
    “Not bad.” Kal took a step back and studied Finn’s reflection. “Not a bad specimen at all.”
    Finn’s heart rate sped up. His chest expanded. He couldn’t allow that to happen; it would convert him back to his native form. He bit back a growl of frustration. He was reverting. His skin glistened iridescent under the human layer of epidermis. His shoulders ached where his Asazi wings threatened to reemerge. He would be in so much trouble if he reverted while he was on Earth. Imagine if his wings