Others

Kaze

They brought a new set of girls today

It's a cycle

Phases like the moon

They send out the ones finally pregnant

Too old

Or too broken

And bring in a fresh set

New and pretty and terrified

They cry

They always cry the first few times

I never wanted to hurt anyone

Not even these fragile human girls

But

Some of them I heard

Volunteer

They like it

They want it

Whatever it is about us that fascinates them

Brings them here

I don't understand

Why anyone would want to be here

I remember one

She was different than the others

Her long hair like flames

And her eyes glinting emeralds

She smiled at me each time

Screamed, but not in fear

Her eyes were hungry

She stayed longer than most

Then one day she was gone

I never think about why

I don't want to think about my children

Wherever they are

They tag the girls we have

To prevent interbreeding later on in the future

The pregnant girls are taken away to another facility where they monitor them up until the birth

Then the child is taken away

Never to know the pain

The suffering

It was created from

***

Something strange happens today

The Grove is normal

It's the equivalent of a slum

Beneath a huge facility

We don't know how it was made

It just was

We are not allowed to go near the humans

To prevent any unnecessary breeding

A tall metal fence

Separates us

The top wrapped in barbed wire

Yet even if it didn't

We'd segregate ourselves

We have very few females of our kind here

They typically clean and cook the meals we rarely get

They, the ones up top, don't care about them living with us

We are unable to reproduce among our own kind anymore

The disease that struck us

Before my people came to earth

Festered inside your reproductive organs

Rendering you infertile

Luckily

Some of us were immune

Though maybe it wasn't luck at all

I wandered around the Grove

Lost in thought

Passing by a rocky side of the slum

Above it is a long window

Some of them from up top liked to watch us

Starving

Fighting

Losing ourselves

I'm close enough to see through

One of the new humans is walking past

Two guards at her side

She turns her head and stares into the grove

Violet eyes catching me

Her hair was as blue as the sky

Nothing I've ever seen before

She stares at me

Her face expressionless

Her eyes are like iron

Weighing me down

They watch me

Unblinking

Something was different about them

Unlike any eyes I've ever seen on a human girl

No fear