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didn’t think it would be too much longer. He’d been pulled back to the ship a few months ago, so would have been cutting back on blood for a while now.
    “Oh, here we go. This is when the shit kicks off.”
    Torq looked back at the screen to see two of the females tapping away at the control panel, unsuccessful in their attempt to open the door. Then suddenly his mate darted forwards, dragging them out of the way but putting her in prime location for the deranged Warrior that appeared in the doorway a moment later.
    Alice had been the human female Dekon had gone for. If not for Corr’s mate diving in at the last moment, it would have been her he had dragged from the room. It was a good job the male had already been dealt with, removed from this world to hopefully one day come back anew, because otherwise Torq’s next destination would have been the medibay to kill the bastard.
    When Hex went to switch footage for the view outside the room, Torq stopped him. While the rest of the females had given chase, brandishing the human accessories that all females seemed to carry, Alice stayed behind, her eyes fixed upon the ongoing fight in terror.
    “Now that is one scarred human in need of a hug,” Hex commented.
    “A hug?”
    “You know, a human embrace, a show of affection and comfort where you pull another to you and wrap them in your arms.”
    “I know what a hug is,” he snapped. He just didn’t know how to respond to the sudden urge he had to be the one to give her one.
    Just as Torq made to leave, his mind already in a spin, Teks appeared, his face like thunder. “What’s wrong, brother?” Hex asked, quickly shutting down all the screens with the hit of one button.
    “Bring up file 7751B from my private files,” he ordered.
    “Bruv, they are your private files, you know they can’t be accessed from here.”
    “Give it a rest, Hex. I know you regularly hack into my private system. That footage you were watching just a moment ago was one of my classified files. Now bring up that file.”
    “Fine,” he moaned, tapping away at the console. “You’re going to change all your passwords again after this, aren’t you?”
    “Yes. Not that it will stop you.”
    That comment brought a smile to the younger Techno’s lips. Torq had no doubt that the moment Teks did change his passwords, Hex would know them.
    With a few more clicks of the keys, Hex was in. When he brought up the file that Teks had asked for, Torq found his stomach tightening at the picture that appeared before them.
    “Mandy,” he sighed. The young human they had watched grow over the years had been missing for almost three days, now it seemed her status had changed to dead. “What happened?”
    “We don’t know. She was found like this back at the warehouse tonight. That building has been checked on multiple occasions since her disappearance with no trace of her found. I ordered one last sweep, just to be sure we hadn’t missed anything and they found this.”
    From what Torq could see from the photo, the young woman had been brutalised, her battered body almost completely covered in blood.
    “Looks like it could have been done in a rage, a frenzy,” Hex commented. “Could it have been done by one of our own? You know, another suffering from madness?”
    “It sure seems that way, but none of our males have been unaccounted for, and none have shown any symptoms of the illness. There is also the fact that according to early results from the medibay, there is no sign of any kind of sexual assault.” A Chaetdorain male suffering from madness would see no problem with taking a woman by force in order to attempt to mate with her.
    “Are there marks?” Torq asked.
    “Yes, there are what appears to be bite marks upon her neck, indicating at a forced mating.”
    “That makes no sense,” Hex said closing the file down. It didn’t matter, the image of Mandy’s broken body would stay with Torq for a long time.
    From the picture alone, he