Erick cradled his bleeding stomach as he contracted his muscles, and worked to process the words of the one who suddenly destroyed his good day with a smash, literally.
His face darkened at the insult, before he focused on two things. The first was that the alien had confirmed that they were indeed siblings. A wave of disgust came over him, coexisting with the pain before his survival instincts made him focus on something else. His 'sister' had someone at her back, possibly, no, certainly an alien too, and one even stronger, and from a higher civilization where his fifth Level of evolution was coined as Conceptualization Stage.
The second thing was that Earth, which she so much looked down on had a suppressive effect on her, on her soul, but that information seemed futile at that moment, as that seemed to do nothing to improve his chances of survival.
