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she enter your mind? Any signs of
abilities like that?”
    “No.” Ral’s hand left her mound to help her sit up. He
handed her clothes back and started to help her dress. “She has no abilities
that could control me.”
    Ahhu was frowning. “Then why did you bound to her?”
    Ral lifted Ariel up off the table to help her put on her
pants. “Seeing her was enough. I was drawn to her fragile beauty. She smelled
good and I wanted her intensely. When we were alone I got to know her very well.
I knew she was mine to keep. I knew she was the woman I wanted bound to.”
    The scientist studied Ral. “She pleases you?”
    Ral nodded. Now that Ariel was dressed Ral’s anger seemed to
dissipate. “More than I have ever been pleased in my life.” He looked down at
Ariel. “Let her look at your implant.” He eyed Ahhu. “Can you download the
program and load her language into our translators so all Zorn can understand
her? How long will that take?”
    Ahhu walked to a wall and got another device. She walked to
Ariel. “Tell her to sit.”
    Ariel sat. “Please remind her that I can understand her.”
    Ral chuckled. “She can understand you, Ahhu. You just can’t
understand her.”
    The woman ran the device over the wrong ear. Ariel pointed.
“This one.”
    The woman moved and ran it over the right ear. The woman read
the small screen and frowned. She looked at Ral. “Let me see you.”
    Ahhu scanned both ears on Ral and frowned. “They put a new
implant in your left ear, Argis Ral. I would like to remove the other-world
implant from you. We do not know what their technology can do. It could be
dangerous.”
    “No. If you do I could not understand Ariel.”
    “Your father is going to order all of the implants removed
from the other world. We do not know if they contain tracking devices or even
harmful tendencies. They could release poison.”
    “What are the chances?”
    The woman hesitated. “Good. Remember history.”
    Ariel frowned. She met Ral’s eyes. “We won’t be able to able
to understand each other, will we?”
    “No. The Zorn translators obviously don’t know your language
or they’d be able to understand you.”
    “At least let us remove them for testing. We might be able
to download their program to adapt it to our translators,” Ahhu said softly.
    Ral frowned. “Remove the other implants from our people and
test those.”
    “They all must be removed, Argis Ral. I swear to you that I
will work very hard to find the way for our translators to work for your bound
woman.”
    Ral growled. There was no translation. “Leave us and lock
the door. We need some time together.”
    Ahhu nodded. “The other Zorn recovered are coming in right
now. I’ll remove their implants first.” She left the room.
    Ral met Ariel’s eyes. “We need to do this. She could be
right. We have had something like this happen before to some of our warriors
who were captured by other world species. They were given alien implants that
released poison that killed them all. It happened days after they escaped.”
    “But we’ve been traveling for three weeks.”
    “We have been aboard their ship. We are out of range of any
signal it could have sent out now that we are on the planet. It is safer if we
do this. I won’t take the risk with your life or mine.”
    “I understand.”
    Ral reached for her. “It doesn’t matter if we can talk or
not.” He pulled her into his arms. “We know how it is between us.”
    “We do.”
    “I will take care of you. It shouldn’t be too difficult for
them to get a working translator. We have the Anzons ship as well with their
programs. We’ll find your language and work it into our translators. We can do
this together, Ariel.”
    “We can do this,” she echoed, hoping they were both right.
    “It won’t be long before they figure it out.”
    Ariel stared up into his eyes and cupped his face with her
hands. “I love you.” One of her hands lowered from his face to his heart.