50 Valerians Resolve (2/2)

My mind struggled to reconcile what was happening and the image I had of the G'eth I respected. I understood the reason's for their decisions, but I couldn't agree with them. I knew I was inexperienced, but this went beyond that. I couldn't continue focusing on this, I needed to focus on the situation in front of me. I pushed out my emotions and feelings, hardened my resolve, and focused back on the situation.

”What do you need to know? It seems you already have a lot of information.”

Castor relaxed a little, like he had been anxiously waiting for me to ask that, ”We did, but a few things still don't make sense. For instance, how did they cause the explosion? It occurred in the room we store our sun stones. A large amount of the stones we retrieved on the last mission were destroyed. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't even known humans caused it.”

Castor pointed at the half-dead human as he said 'him'.

”You didn't ask him how they caused the explosion before he lost consciousness?”

”No, when we captured him he insisted he was just a hunter. Under threat of execution he revealed he was part of a group of humans that caused the explosion, but it wasn't his plan. After he refused to tell us more unless we released him, we brought him here. When the questioning resumed I was more concerned with understanding who was behind it and why they did it. I was still working on the why they attacked when he first went unconscious. We didn't get to the how, we thought we could figure out that part on our own if necessary. However, that has proven to be more difficult than we imagined.”

”I will do my best to help you find the answer.”

Castor was ecstatic, ”Thank you! I know we are asking a lot, but,”

I cut him off, ”On one condition,” I pointed to the human, ”Kill him. Now. He's suffered enough.”

Castor hesitated for a moment, then he raised his arm. The exposed leaves of the Razarac near the mans chest and face gathered into two thin spikes. Castor silently nodded toward me then swept his arm in front of him. The two spikes pierced through his head and chest simultaneously. This was all I could do for him. Give him the quick death he deserved.

”Ok, let me see what he had and anything found around the explosion.”

As we walked away the corpse was slowly dragged into the earthen wall by the Zerden roots.