"My wife."
Jayden stared at the entity in front of him.
She was humanoid for the most part.
She was tall, lavender skinned, the color sitting somewhere between lilac and ash depending on how the emergency strip lighting caught her, and it caught her differently every time she moved even slightly. Large dark eyes currently fixed on the man rather than on Jayden, like Jayden was simply not the most important thing in the room. A tail extended from the base of her spine, thick at the root and tapering as it went, the same lavender as the rest of her, the tip moving in a slow unconscious arc. Her frame was lean but nothing about it suggested fragile. She had armor on, nothing Jayden recognized, one panel along her left side cracked in a fresh split that looked recent.
Whatever hit this ship hit her too.
Jayden opened his mouth.
Then Lila came back in.
