As I warned, sorry to end on such a downer. Then again, IRL I am ill again and don’t feel like a happy ending at all.
Sometimes we write the stories we’re told to. I’ll try for something lighter, next time.
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Nazca, 5
Things get rather grim from here on out; there is a war going on in the background, after all. And I hope some of you get the joke about the llama’s name.
Doe tries to help, but is not military-trained.
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Pushy Doe is pushy; most demi-humans are; Empress Aurelia’s father being a huge exception, and as you’ll know when you read Irrational Pai, Fusions can be dangerous.
Rather than spit-swapping magic rocks, this was a much faster way to convey information, even if it hurt Doe.
And, just for y’all: some pictures below the fold.
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Communication established, even if, as Aleja says, it’s kinda gross. Do we stand on the threshhold of interstellar war over this?
At the end of this segment, we meet Doe, a Fusion first introduced in Irrational Pai. A nice girl, but used to getting her own way and comes across very rude.
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A bit of a “first contact” part of the story. I can just imagine what Salvy thought of an alien lizard next to him. Aleja is a clever girl and gets her visitor back to the shed where she was told to live. We do get a little foreshadowing when she sees an Anglo woman in this tiny, out of the way village.
Her uncle and aunt sound like real winners.
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Another short story project. This will be a submission for an anthology likely due out in the spring of next year. It is fairly contemporanious with my last short; both of these are, of course, a part of my future history, and, more specifically, the coming of the Civil Wars.
In the story, there is a reference to the goings-on on Mars. Also, later, we meet a minor character first introduced in my most recent novel.
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