Page 22 of Ghoul Huntress (Maelstrom Duology #2)

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Avidex woke his human.

It will be thousands of years before we reach our new planet, Willow. It would be best to sleep much of the time.

I see.

I thought I would occupy myself by asking you many things.

Such as?

This good and bad. On a new planet how do I tell one from the other?

If I destroy all of one species but revive one that is almost extinct, am I good or bad? For example, if the killed one is like the zebras but the one I let live is humanlike?

I’m not sure it works like that.

But you’d rather I keep the intelligent ones alive, if there is a choice?

Willow sighed, mentally. He could always tell when he had her bothered. Since she had often bothered him on Earth, this amused Avidex.

Since I don’t know this planet or its species, I don’t know the answer. The humanoids might be terrible.

True. A wise answer. You know, Willow… you were right. There is a certain joy in creating things.

You only did it the once.

I experimented more than once. You were asleep at the time. Same as when I ate you.

What?

And fucked you. He would have laughed if he had the capacity. He’d shocked her.

But you divert from my topic. I experimented. I made more than one zebra. I made a few animals. I’ve instructed the queen to find a planet uninhabited by anything intelligent. I am going to create more things. As well as eat things. I can’t exist without eating.

You’ve changed, Avidex. I’m glad I changed your mind.

If you believe it was your logic, it was not. It happened because you are a part of me. Simply that.

Oh.

Yes, you humans are like… He searched for one of those metaphors humans liked. Bedbugs. You made me itch for a different bed.