“The MOMENT my boy saw the danger he reached out for his male breeder for help," I responded angrily. "My family reached out to the camp. These boys were never safer. There is always danger, but you took away the men's ability to defend themselves on those compounds. They can't connect to The Great Harmonious Spirit when you keep them divided and isolated. The men have to have love and trust to survive."

The woman on the slab had a vicious wound across her neck. She still looked at me angrily and growled.

“We put them there for their safety! They are not safe here! You are nothing more than a slave and will never understand!" she spat out.

“What doesn't she understand?" Kana asked walking up from behind us. She gently shooed Rose and told her to go help the Healers. I spared my friend a confused look as Kana settled on the edge of my son's warm stone. She pushed me around the rock so I rested behind her. I didn't really feel we needed protection, but my family and I were going to get it.

Rose moved away, but continued to watch as Kana spoke.

“Perhaps you should explain the whole story to her,” Kana continued.

“Tell the human how we tricked the men onto the compounds. Explain to her how we made sure the different ages never bonded. Tell her why we did all that. It was never for their safety and you know that. It was so we could sell the ore off the planet! The men are powerful when The Great Harmonious Spirit has them. They can even defy us. These aliens will never survive here."

The room was silent after Kana spoke and I saw the rage in the eyes of the woman she had been speaking with.

“How DARE YOU..." the woman started to say and Kana laughed.

“They know," Kana said blithely, “the men here know because their women are honest with them. You should be honest with yourself about our motivations and reasons. Arguing that these injured males are reason to undo the salvation of this world is foolish indeed."

A young family that had been standing along a near wall approached us slowly. Just looking at them I knew they were young Warriors rescued from a compound. They were not bonded to the camp and they were not grabbed by The Great Harmonious Spirit. They looked very suspicious of all of this.

“Why would we be put on the compound instead of Living here?" the lead Brother asked Kana with a slightly defensive posture. "We have never heard this."

The boys looked nervous talking to females and I could tell they were ready to bolt away if Kana attacked. They must be brave men to do what they were doing now. Kana just settled herself more firmly on Jonathan's stone and started to speak with them.

The woman with the neck wound attempted to get up, most likely to fight, but she couldn't. Her wound was too bad and prevented too much movement. Tyle and his family further Limited her by pushing her back down.

“Movement will injure you, cousin," Tyle said in a commanding tone. "We will not Lose good women to this battle when we can help it. Stay still until you heal."

The woman wanted to fight Kana, but she was no match for men under The Great Harmonious Spirit's control. Several families approached quickly and Literally bound her body to the table with stike rope. She would be calm and rest, whether she wanted to or not.

Kana watched the men bind the other woman impassively before continuing her conversation.

“Many generations ago we realized the ore on this planet was valuable to other races. It fuels the portals that allow them to cross between worlds," she explained.

Many older boys and men from the compound, left here for their safety, slowly surrounded her to listen.

"Men of this world did not Like the idea of letting the ore leave our world. They fought the idea fiercely and called it wrong,” she announced to the assembly.

“Why?" one of the young men asked, inching closer with his family.

I crawled on the slab beside Kana and looked to her to continue. I didn't know either.