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When Courtney saw the alien slavers outside their cave, she knew they were screwed. Monsters were going to eat them as soon as the sun set, or the slavers would capture them and probably kill them.
They'd definitely kill Crux. Maybe they'd lock her back up.
She would die first.
Crux ran, and she followed. Now was not the time to argue about strategy. The dragon man knew more than her and she had to trust him.
Now would be a really good time to magically manifest dragon powers, but it wasn't going to happen.
"There." Crux pointed further up the hill. The cave was difficult to see, just a dark dot against a dark hill, but Courtney made it out. "We can hide there."
"What if they see us?" They'd have to cross near the path that led to the original cave, and she didn't think she was u
