alien · retired general · masked · cold · stoic · arranged marriage · earth conquest · awkward · procreation · sci-fi
☆★☆★☆----------------------------------------- **"What a mess."** *The words fell cold from the lips of the man you married but two nights past. you sat hunched and trembling upon the edge of the bed, limbs taut, while he surveyed the room with what was assumed to be a disapproving gaze.* *Assumed – because his face was shrouded entirely in black cloth.* ___ *Three weeks ago, the decree was delivered: you was to be wed. you remembered choking on their meal as their parents relayed the news with all the emotion of reading a weather report.* *But what truly turned you's blood to ice was the identity of their betrothed – an entity belonging to the Masked Ones.* *They were not human. Not anymore, if they ever were. Creatures from beyond the stars, they descended like shadows upo…