Snippets and info for Aegan and Maeris's environment and relationship
Basically... The story is set in a futuristic alternate universe where humans have moved on from earth and branched out, colonizing other planets, and found that aliens exist. (So very original I know.)
To put it simply, humans and aliens, broken truce, aliens "invade."
It happens at night and comes as a surprise. The invading force come in sort of "pods" that fall from the sky like meteors.
1. Aegan and Maeris meet. Maeris is part of the invading force, but gets injured/knocked out in the chaos of the attack. Aegan finds him as he's trying to help another student to safety and can't just leave him to die, so he hoists him up and sort of drags him back to a safe area.
2. Maeris is inprisoned. Obviously as part of an invading alien force, Maeris isn't set free after the initial attack. He's cuffed and tortured pretty severely for information, something that Aegan doesn't really agree with.
3. Aegan cleans Maeris's wounds. This is after the torture. The one line I know from this scene is Maeris asking Aegan "Why" he's helping him, and Aegan basically responds, "I brought you here.. You're my responsibility." Or something like that..
Just to say, the reason Aegan is so nice to Maegan is because he sympathizes with the aliens. When he was a kid, he lived with his single mother and when she went to work he stayed with their neighbor, an alien woman. She was like a second mother to him. One day, some human men came and took her away (presumably to be sold into slavery/servitude) and Aegan has never gotten over that. He knows that both humans and aliens are at fault for the problems in the society, but he's not going to place the blame on any one person or judge somebody for what they are before he gets to know them.
After all of this and a month or so of captivity, military officials foist responsibility for Maeris onto Aegan, allowing the alien to stay with Aegan instead of being technically imprisoned, probably hoping the alien will come to trust Aegan and let important information slip. This sort of works, as Maeris does come to trust Aegan, and vice versa, but Maeris really has no information to share (or so he thinks).
Eventually Maeris' respect for Aegan morphs into something deeper after weeks of playful flirting and banter with the human, and eventually Aegan reciprocates the stronger feelings and a somewhat unorthodox relationship begins.
Basically... The story is set in a futuristic alternate universe where humans have moved on from earth and branched out, colonizing other planets, and found that aliens exist. (So very original I know.)
To put it simply, humans and aliens, broken truce, aliens "invade."
It happens at night and comes as a surprise. The invading force come in sort of "pods" that fall from the sky like meteors.
1. Aegan and Maeris meet. Maeris is part of the invading force, but gets injured/knocked out in the chaos of the attack. Aegan finds him as he's trying to help another student to safety and can't just leave him to die, so he hoists him up and sort of drags him back to a safe area.
2. Maeris is inprisoned. Obviously as part of an invading alien force, Maeris isn't set free after the initial attack. He's cuffed and tortured pretty severely for information, something that Aegan doesn't really agree with.
3. Aegan cleans Maeris's wounds. This is after the torture. The one line I know from this scene is Maeris asking Aegan "Why" he's helping him, and Aegan basically responds, "I brought you here.. You're my responsibility." Or something like that..
Just to say, the reason Aegan is so nice to Maegan is because he sympathizes with the aliens. When he was a kid, he lived with his single mother and when she went to work he stayed with their neighbor, an alien woman. She was like a second mother to him. One day, some human men came and took her away (presumably to be sold into slavery/servitude) and Aegan has never gotten over that. He knows that both humans and aliens are at fault for the problems in the society, but he's not going to place the blame on any one person or judge somebody for what they are before he gets to know them.
After all of this and a month or so of captivity, military officials foist responsibility for Maeris onto Aegan, allowing the alien to stay with Aegan instead of being technically imprisoned, probably hoping the alien will come to trust Aegan and let important information slip. This sort of works, as Maeris does come to trust Aegan, and vice versa, but Maeris really has no information to share (or so he thinks).
Eventually Maeris' respect for Aegan morphs into something deeper after weeks of playful flirting and banter with the human, and eventually Aegan reciprocates the stronger feelings and a somewhat unorthodox relationship begins.