"Zoomies, Alcohol, Bath,Then Pheromones! Are you out of you fucking mind?!" A young Xanilian doctor put down his files angrily.

Tzara looked away embarrassed.

"That's the only order of things that makes me sleep. I didn't know pheromones would have drastic effects."

I pressed my lips together. Now I'm the villain here?

"It's good that Yuri was there you idiot! Or else you would've have died in the fucking pool."

"Ookkk, can we all stop swearing and be nice?" I cranked up a smile.

"You don't know him like I do. Ok? He's been a pain in the ass ever since he was born." The doctor leaned back on his chair.

Usually all others in this ship seemed to be scared of Tzara. But here it was complete opposite. This doctor was the only one Tzara truly seemed to be scared.

"Look. I know being crown prince is tough. A huge responsibility. But you can't keep doing this to yourself." The doctor said.

"You don't know the half of it." Tzara stood up and left.

I sat there awkwardly with only the doctor present in the room.

"And you." He started talking to me.

"Who me?"

"Why are you doing this?" He asked with a disgusted face. "Why have you agreed? I know you have the power to escape from all this. We gave you several chances for the past 15 days."

I sighed and leaned back as well.

He was right. I could have escaped to other planets as a free human when the ship was stopped to process solar energy to fuel.

"Because.....I was damn bored." I confessed.

"For 5 years, I had nobody after the war or the invasion. Earth was empty. Either people killed themselves or aliens abducted them. Only my dog though. And...he was suffering with me. And...." Suddenly I started spilling out tears. But I was determined to continue.

"I wanted someone to actually catch me," I continued. "I thought....maybe it wouldn't be too bad if someone eats me or buys me and keeps me as pet. It didn't matter anymore. I didn't want to keep running away... I didn't have a place to go."

The doctor looked at me with keen eye. "So...you were lonely."

"Yes, you can put it that way."

"Look, Tzara...he's a nice guy. He was the one who didn't want you back on earth. He said you looked sad and miserable the whole time there. The plan was to keep all the elite slaves safe with trusted nobles in the name of experiment. They were even given chances to escape just like you."

I raised my eyebrows. "Did they?"

"Not a single one." He confirmed. "All the other human civilians, well we know that they all died due to war earlier caused by themselves. The ones leftover, they were begging us to kill them. End their agony and stuff."

I snorted at this. "Do you know why?" I asked.

The doctor shook his head confused.

"Because Xanilians lot look like devils from different cultures on earth. But your lot is lot cooler and handsome though."

The doctor's face flushed magenta pink. "Well, you think of us too highly."

I beamed back at him warmly. "Well, I guess I'll stick around then." I stood up and went out.

Tzara was curled up on the ground. His whole body was still hot pink, not burning red.

"You heard everything didn't you?" I asked as I sat beside him and snuggled into him.

"Do you have any...family?" He asked out of nowhere.

"Well, there's snippy."

"Other than him."

"I...had my dad. A four star general of the airforce. Maybe it was because of him I became a soldier. I even rose to the rank of major just to please him." I muttered.

"Your mother?"

"....Didn't have one. She left me at my dad's right after giving birth to me."

"Why?"

"Rumours say that she found someone else. I'm not even sure if I was my dad's daughter."

"What about Damien?"

I turned to him surprised. He actually listened to me. And remembered.

But I laughed off. "Oh, Damien? He...already had someone else. It would have been useless if I had confessed to him that I liked him."

He slightly smiled but hid it quickly and rubbed my arm.

"I'm sorry for the way I treated you all this time." He said. "There were spies at the auction house." He whispered. "But this ship is filled with my loyal people."

"My mother ordered the invasion. I didn't agree to it because Xanilians never attack a planet that's already weakened. She wanted the experiment."

He gazed into the stars from the transparent wall few seconds.

"My father's all over her. She's not my birth mother yet she gets to dictate my life."

"That's.....terrible." I gazed into the stars as well.

"Not as much as yours." He pulled me in closer.