When the human tried to pin the blame on him, Caeyin ignored her. If she had been someone whom he trusted, she would have been right. However, she had already lied to him once, and he’d had no reason to believe that she had been telling him the truth this time. Before he’d seen the other human with his own two eyes, it had been more logical for him to assume that she had been trying to fool him again, so he wouldn’t reunited with the other scouts. That she expected him to know inherently when she was being honest or dishonest was ridiculous. Even his kind wasn’t [i]that[/i] intuitive without forming a mental link with the other person to read them more closely.

Ripping the weapon out of her hand, he turned it on her with a jaded expression. The question she asked gave him pause though. Ordinarily, he would have taken the opportunity to kill her the instant he was able to. There were no other right-minded humans—at least, none that she was willing to tell him about—so he had nothing left to gain from keeping her alive that would please the pilot. The most sensible course of action was to fire the projectile at her and walk away to continue exploring the area. However, he wavered. His thoughts wandered back to the feral male that had attacked him, and he wondered if there were more of them out there. If so, it could be worth his time to question her. He needed to find out more about the threats on the Earth, so he would be better equipped to face them next time.

“I will kill you,” he assured her coldly. “But it won’t be now.” Pressing the barrel of the weapon against her chest, he took hold of her upper arm in his free hand and dragged her roughly over to the nearby chain restraint that she had used to tie him up the day before. After he’d been forcibly familiarized with the device, he knew how it worked. He slid his hand down from her bicep to her forearm and pulled her toward it, only lowering the weapon in his other hand to snap the metal piece around her wrist and remove the key.

Disregarding any efforts she may have made to resist, he picked the projectile gun back up and stepped back, assessing his own work. It looked like the human was restrained well enough, so he finally turned his back on her to retrieve his silencer from where it had been thrown to the floor. Though he’d used the earth weapon to threaten her, he didn’t really know how to use it, so he felt more comfortable with the electromagnetic gun in his hand. Better to rely on something that he was certain he could use.

“First, I want you to tell me what that thing was,” he dictated, idly indicating the dead male with a wave of his hand as he inspected his weapon for damage. When he felt satisfied that the silencer was still operable, his violet eyes flicked up to meet her gaze. “A different breed of human? Or do you all become that unstable as you age?”