Alien Barbarians' Hope by Zara Starr

Author:Zara Starr [Starr, Zara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

Ella

I still didn’t know a damn thing about anything regarding the purples. It seemed easiest to call them that because I still didn’t even know the name of the planet I had somehow ended up on.

But what bothered me most, was not knowing what conclusions had been drawn regarding myself at the meeting Karr had left me by the fire to have with the older men. What had they decided to do with me?

As we walked across the meadow to Karr’s cave, I noticed that most of the others kept somewhat of a distance from himself and the male who so strangely resembled him. I wondered if the two of them were royalty or something special to these people.

When Karr chose to direct me into the cave with the female called Julene, I wondered what he would be talking about with the other males who had followed us from the larger cave.

I approached the fire with the dampened furs and spread them out beneath my knees as I knelt down. Julene walked to the furthest corner of the cave and began pulling something out of an animal skin satchel that reminded me of the pouches of marsupials in Australia.

I suddenly wondered if it had been cut from some animal’s body for the purpose of being Julene’s purse and felt my stomach tense.

She pulled what appeared to be some sort of grayish-white root and a small rock from the satchel. I watched as she seated herself, and began grinding a bit of the root in her hand with the rock.

She looked at me and sniffed the air suddenly. I wondered if she was implying that I stank. It was wholly possible, I considered, as I had been pulled from a gigantic lake that seemed saltier than most.

Suddenly, Julene stood up and walked over to the wooden cup that Karr had left for me earlier. She lifted it and sniffed the cup, grimacing at the scent as she shook her head. She shifted some of the bags from her belt and pulled what appeared to be a wineskin from it.

I watched as she poured a bit of clear fluid into the cup and then dumped the ground root remnants inside it. She swirled the liquid with her hand and then walked over to me, holding the cup out before me as she nodded, and pointed toward me.

I wondered what the drink consisted of and what effects the root she had given me would have.

She seemed to sense my apprehension and lifted her head, folding her hands together, and closing her eyes as she rested her hands palms-up against her own cheek. I quickly understood that she was trying to indicate that the drink would help me sleep.

Is it some sort of sleepy time tea? I wondered curiously.

I took the cup from her and leaned my nose forward, inhaling the scent of the fluid as I tried to consider what it smelled most like.

It seemed to have no scent, however, and I wondered

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