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even for just a few seconds, that he might have
feelings for her. And, even more foolishly, for just as long, he
had thought that she might feel the same way about him. Now, for
certain, Lionel was aware that Samakri was even more evil than he
ever could have imagined. If he had thought at any point that there
was good left in her, he was dead wrong. Or, perhaps he was
not.
    “Are you comfortable her, on
Zebda?” Sam asked, approaching him slowly, her pale and shapely
legs swaying just the right way as she moved in his
direction.
    “Well, not exactly, Sam,” he retorted. “I mean, I thought I
could trust you to help me and now I find out that you were
involved in my parents’ murder and that you couldn’t even care less
about what happens to me as long as Zebda overrules Earth and you
get the cure. Is that what you were after all along, Samakri? Is
that why you even killed Loretta J, who, I agree, was annoying, but
who was innocent , and a lot
more so than you or your brother could ever be?”
    “I was testing you, Lionel. I did
not kill the annoying singer girl. I marphed her here to Zebda,
where she has become a slave in the art of exotic entertainment.
She will be singing for the Zebdian army during their training to
relax them and make them more efficient fighters.”
    “You said that you removed her
from existence, Sam. How do I know that you’re not lying now rather
than back then?”
    “I did remove her from existence,
Lionel. Planes of existence are only pertinent to Earth. There is
no such thing as existence on Zebda.”
    “Are you really going to wage a
war; pit our home planets against each other, just so that you
won’t have to admit a loss for one time in your life, Sam?” Lionel
questioned, looking down idly at the exquisite Yalmax floor tiles,
which had been injected with strange phosphorescent dyes to make
the colors appear to change as light struck the tiles.
    “There is more to this war than
you are currently able to imagine, Lionel. We have nothing against
your kind. We need you for the cure. However, we do not have to
kill you to get it. While I was attending Earth school, I learned
of a process called cloning. According to the books that you have
there, it has not been used on humans to date; only sheep. I have
also acquired skills in the art of Earthen technology and have thus
accessed your transcripts from the school you were attending.
Through this acquisition, I have come to know that you excelled in
science and mathematics. You also did a research project on cloning
as part of your application to some impressive universities, all of
which you declined to attend in the last minute because you had
decided to run away.”
    “Sam, you’re crazy. I’m not a
scientist. I don’t know how the hell to clone someone, especially
not myself. It was just a stupid project. And, even if I was as
special as people used to think I might be one day, and, if I did
actually know how to do what you’re asking me to do, I wouldn’t
tell you how, anyway. It’s just not a good idea at all.”
    “Would you rather go to war with
Zebda and die so we may acquire the cure for apathy, then?” Sam
looked eerily content with the idea of killing a person who she had
so recently proclaimed a connection to. It made Lionel wonder if it
she really was lying about Loretta.
    “No, of course I wouldn’t rather
go to war. But, what you don’t seem to realize, Sam, is that there
haven’t been any human clones yet because the science is flawed. It
has been predicted that humans who were cloned would be sickly;
they would die before reaching maturity. And, yes, they do have to
reach maturity. It isn’t possible in any way for you to clone me
and end up with another me. You would be killing little me; the me
not too far off from the me that you met all those years
ago.”
    Samakri froze when Lionel said
that. She had not studied cloning enough to pick up on that bit of
detail. Despite everything that she had