Leaning against the apartment balcony's rails, they watched the cars and people below in the darkening evening light. He remained quiet for some time. Then he stood straight, moving closer. Josie's breathing and heart rate quickened at his proximity. He had the face and body of a man who featured regularly in her explicit fantasies. Her brain said he was alien. Her body said he was a man. "What is a life without purpose, human?" She licked her bottom lip. "Hollow?" "Useless." Low and smooth, his voice carried a sensuality in contrast to his words. "Unfit for existence." "That's harsh." "Yes, but it is true. More so for a being like me. I and many of my kind once served as agents for another's purpose. They imprisoned me when I no longer valued their abhorrent ideals, and slaughtered the rest of my kind when they formed a reprisal." Josie raised a hand to her mouth, her eyes wide. "That's horrible." "Time innumerable passed until I acquired freedom from stasis. I awoke to nothingness.
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