Draft #9! Thanks to Lysalei for suggesting this number! This one was a bit difficult because the only word I had on this draft was ‘something’ 😂

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After generations and generations being under the rule of the Keoshfie, an alien race that came down to Earth and swiftly dominated it, one person believes to have the answer to victory.

They may appear human-like, but no one knows what they actually look like. The Keoshfien can manipulate minds and bend them to their own will. Create illusions and insert thoughts in one’s brain. With no mercy, they dwindled the human population to only the strongest for the best workers to slave their lives away for the Keoshfien.

While all the older members were eliminated, the children are raised to be fit and serve the aliens.

It is one such child, brought up in this turmoil, that knows he can bring peace to the humans of Earth.

Having worked his way up, getting closer to the alien royalty, he met the Keoshfien princess. Garth observed Princess Hariki up close and witnessed her sympathy towards humans.

It was this sympathy that could be used to free humans. He just needed to exploit it.

That is a tricky manipulation to pull off. The Keoshfie could bend thinking, they could not read minds. They could make you speak your thoughts aloud, but only if they suspected something. So he has to be discreet.

But as he spent more time with Princess Hariki, he is shown a new path to peace. Not through exploitation or manipulation. Not through war or battlefields.

It’s not annihilation of one race. The answer is coexistence.

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(Fun fact, I came up with the name ‘Keoshfie’ by literally doing a keyboard smash and then seeing what could be a word. 😂)