Neon lights flickered through the small, glass windows into the vast white-dotted darkness of space. The vessel was a sleek piece of machinery, the highlight of an entire fleet of starships The spaceship was like molten lead. The shapeshifted, seemingly at random, taking either an organic form or geometric angles. As it moved there was no gust of wind, no sound as if somehow it didn't even displace the air. It showed up on radar but only faintly, when they had first come to Earth’s attention. Their technology had confused and bewildered a lot of the officials. It was utterly seamless, no visible means of propulsion and no weaponry. After many talks, the future of the two races had come down to this meeting, after months of conversation and back and forth it had arrived that a small select number of diplomats would meet with a number of high ranking leaders of the Inarras. They had been granted permission to board their main command ship, herself and seven others made up the team, she was the only woman. As much as the earth had grown over the last few years, females still rarely were in high ranking positions. Indeed her participation on this very convey had ended up more a circumstance of luck after one of the others had unexpectedly taken sick only days before departure and none of the others knew enough of the language of the Inarras. She wasn’t fluent but she could hold her own in the language.<br/><br/>The room they had been lead to upon boarding had been beautiful, sleek and effortless in form. As her eyes had scanned the room she had noted the slight touches of tribal and martial art and objects which pulled the area together. Skylar Devin was young by the standard of most within the UNOE, (United Nations of Earth) she had excelled from a young age and been well ahead of her peers so it was no surprise when at fourteen she had been offered a converted place at the National Institute of learning, the best and most well-known institute on earth. Leaving home at such a young age had been hard but she had quickly adapted and excelled in her new situation, at 18 she had graduated and became the aide to a well know diplomat since then she had managed to make a name for herself in her own right. The meeting had started well enough, but only the males of their race had been present, no doubt deeming the earth creatures too unimportant for their real leaders to speak too, two female voices had joined them over some sort of holoterminal. However unexpected they everything had gone to dust in a few moments. Skylar couldn’t quite place what had even happened, she had seen Raynard reach for his weapon and then a few moments later there was a battlefield around her.<br/><br/>The clangor of firing weapons and the clashing of swords had ceased, the shouting cries of the slaughter were hushed, all of her kind dead except her. Death surrounded her and a fog settled in place around her at the reality of the situation she now faced, around her lay the corpses of men she once called comrades, friends even. The evening past she had shared drinks with them as they spoke of their homes, their families. All gone within a few seconds their lives cut from them in but a moment. She glanced around her emerald eyes settling on the burnt and bloodied form of Alex, his dead hand still attempting grip at his pistol, his head drawn back as his lifeless eyes seemed to pierce into her very soul. He had two daughters at home, two and four, babies and now they would grow up fatherless. She cursed herself for her ignorance, she had known there were too many men on this mission for it to be a simple peace talk. But she had ignored her gut feeling instead trusting in her government to lead, what a mighty fine job they had done.<br/><br/>Skylar Devin drew in a deep breath, her form shaking softly in the aftermath of what had been a quick and brutal slaughter for the men of earth. Confusion and shock both settled in place as she attempted to make sense of the last 10 minutes of her life. It made no sense, yet it had occurred, she silently willed herself to awaken from this nightmare for to believe it was reality was beyond belief. She settled on her knees acutely aware of the cold steel beneath her form as she leaned forward her hands lay on the ground as if to keep her form in place, unable to trust her balance. Her bright purple hair trailing down to form a curtain around her face as she blinked back the tears which fought to form in her eyes. The deep voice of the male before her breaking her from her sorrow as she heard his words as they managed to break through her self-induced panic. He was asking her what her government meant by this act of betrayal before indicating she was a coward for not drawing her own weapon, a weapon which now was settled in the hand of one of the guards.<br/><br/>She raised her head, her hair parting as she stared at the male before her, she couldn’t even place a name. She raised up slightly to settle her hands on her thighs but drew back at the dampness her eyes darting down as she saw the blood of her friends splattered across the dark purple of her dress. She bit down on her bottom lip as she attempted to think of a defense for her actions, her government's actions but she couldn’t settle on one, herself still annoyed at the choice they had made. They had sentenced all those men to death, her to death most likely and the Inarras would no longer be open to peace talks, they had signed the beginning of the end of Earth. She looked up meeting his eyes, she was anything but a coward when all the others had paled at the thought of dealing with the Inarras she had stepped forward willing to try if it meant a chance at peace. No, she would not take the insult, the others were cowards for agreeing to this idea but she was in the dark, not that it was likely they would believe her. Even if they did she would most likely still face death for her part within the scheme whether it was intentional or not she had arrived with a group of assassins. She let her emerald eyes met his as she spoke, her voice able to possess more confidence than she was currently feeling<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#cc99ff">. “ I am no coward. I was sent here for negotiations, I had no prior knowledge of the attack the others planned.”</span>She trailed off towards the end as his eyes narrowed on her form. Before she steeled herself and dared to ask the question which was currently worming its way into her mind<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#cc99ff">“ What will happen to me now ?”</span>The male before her shook his head and looked at her before stepping back<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffa64d"> “That lies in the hands of the Harbinger”  </span>