DARIUS
Garrett’s voice boomed over the loudspeakers again following his admission of guilt as a member of Guardian leadership. I detected the smugness in his voice, the belief that he had bested us.
"You wanted integration with humans? Here's your integration, Goldblood. You hold their destinies, Alpha. Deliver yourself, and the traitor Luna, and we will release the hostages unto you unharmed. You refuse, and you have their blood on your hands. You have five minutes to make up your mind, or the offer's off.”
It was a trap. I absolutely knew surrendering would not, in fact, save any lives. The Guardians would murder us all — hostages and all — once they were through with us. This was for generating footage, to demonstrate that if you cooperated with humans… then humans would die.
“But h
