Others

Cobalt

They ship me with several other girls

All crying for their mothers

Fathers

Anyone to save them

My blood was ice in my veins

My hands shake

But I don't cry

I glance around at my companions

They all seemed close to my age

They only want us between the ages of 19 and 21

Matured fully to carry a child

And young enough to prevent any kind of altercations

I was four

During the war

When Humans and Otherians destroyed each other

Leaving both our species

Endangered

Dying

Before

We tried living in peace

Allowing a portion of the Others

To live among society

But as History has shown us among our own people

We have never lived peacefully

After the fallout

We lived scattered around the globe

Living in fear of each other

Until

We began to fear another

The Raize

A Human and Other terrorist group

Banded together to create

The perfect species

At first

They weren't widely known

Swiping homeless girls off the streets off our poorly rebuilt cities

Their bodies were found in ditches

And streams

In pieces

Defiled

Horribly marred

Soon

Growing in number

And in name

They were the terror

That had parents cut their daughters' hair short

And dress them as boys

Only a few months ago

They brought a space craft

Full of young

Otherian males

From their home planet

Otheria

To breed with the taken girls

I heard they signed up for it

Volunteered

I have never seen one close up

But I already knew that

I hated them all