Extraordinary beauty! Superhuman strength within her! These are the adventures of Doctor Darala Starr, an alien woman from a heavy planet whose trip to Earth will help her discover her own incredible power! As Darala grows to understand the enormity...
Darala, Tina and Jason were together in Tina's living room after dinner. Darala found the food to be excellent, although she desperately missed the far more nourishing meals on Tau Ceti Alpha. Neverthelss, she was satisfied, and it was after the meal that she proceeded to explain things to Tina, who was fascinated.
"So, you're really... from another planet?" Tina asked, seated on her sofa, still in her shorts and T-shirt. Jason was standing in a corner of the room, his arms folded, listening closely.
Darala said, "Yes. A heavy planet with well over thirty times Earth's gravity."
Tina nodded and said, "That explains why here on Earth you are so strong."
Darala said, "Correct. That and on Tau Ceti I've been training very hard, growing stronger even there."
"Wow," Tina said. "So you're like as strong as fifty men?"
"Approximately," Darala said. "When I first landed I'd forgotten about the ratio of my home world compared with Earth. In fact it wasn't until I was detained that my ship's computer talked some sense into me and I escaped capture."
"Escaped capture?" Jason asked, slowly walking back toward the sofa.
Darala decided not to divulge all the details about the Torellian masquerading as a human. There were some things she would need to keep to herself in order to successfully complete her mission.
"Yes. I won't bore you with the details, but I got myself locked in a rather primitive holding cell. Once I realized the advantage I had, I was able to bend the steel bars apart and escape. After that, we met on the road and that's where I feel I went too far. I was showing off my strength and if I hadn't done that, this deputy Brown wouldn't be so suspicious of me."
Jason said, "Darala, what you did today was incredible. You shouldn't feel that way."
"Thank you, Jason," Darala said.
"And you saved Kyle's life," Tina added. "I don't know how we would have manually gotten into that vault without your powers, Darala. You are a real superhero."
Darala lowered her gaze and then broke into a smile. She didn't understand the reference, but appreciated the sentiment just the same.
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"I was so pleased that he wasn't hurt," she said.
"So what would happen if I went to your planet?" Tina asked.
Darala thought about it. "Well, imagine adding more than thirty times your own weight to your body. Your bones would most likely break from the stress and your lungs would implode, along with your heart muscle. Come to think of it, it would be very horrible."
Tina thought about that and shook her head. "No thank you," she said. "I'm happy right here on Earth."
