Alien Prince's Fate: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance by Tammy Walsh

Author:Tammy Walsh [Walsh, Tammy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Inside, the embassy was a flurry of activity. The majority were El’illal, many of them workers attending to the needs of the visitors. They listened patiently to issues and concerns before nodding, giving advice, and then leading them to the appropriate desk where they could get information.

It was sharp, surprisingly friendly, and well-organized. Nothing like the embassies back home. After the third world war, poverty had struck hard at the everyday working family, taxes soared, and service quality dropped to levels never seen before. Everything took forever and nothing was ever fully completed.

Thrayn ignored the customer assistants and desks. Instead, he directed us toward a single small desk on one side of the room. He marched over to it with me in his wake.

He stood before the desk and waited patiently until the female El’illal had finished making her notes.

Without even looking up she said, “Yes? Can I help you?”

“I have an appointment to see the ambassador.”

“Name?”

He told her. The secretary opened a large book that she brought out from a desk drawer, slammed it on the table, and ran her finger down the latest series of entries.

“Are you sure it’s for today?” she said, peering up at him over her glass lenses.

I always hate it when teachers at school did that. Despite her tiny stature, there was an aura of condescension that always brought a bitter taste to my mouth.

Where I took it badly, Thrayn appeared to be completely unaffected by it. “It’s an emergency appointment. It should begin the moment I arrive at the embassy.”

The secretary pursed her lips before running her finger down the list of entries once more. “I’m not seeing it here. Perhaps if you told me the date you made the appointment?”

“I didn’t make the appointment. My assistant did.”

“And when did your assistant make this appointment?”

What was it with people possessing modicum levels of authority? I wondered. They thought they could treat you like garbage. Why did they always — irrespective of their species, it seemed — like to make themselves appear more powerful than they really were?

Because they could, I thought. And in each bubble of influence, inside each tiny little world, there was always a little Napoleon running around, thinking they controlled the universe, when really, their universe was so small, so tiny, that it affected so few people, it shouldn’t have manifested into a problem at all. And yet, it always did.

I was glad it was Thrayn speaking to this female, and not me. I would have already lost my temper and flown off the handle.

Thrayn persisted. “It must have happened within the past twenty-four hours or so. The appointment is extremely urgent and I must see the ambassador as soon as possible.”

“And what is your assistant’s name?” the secretary asked, unimpressed.

“I have many assistants,” Thrayn said flatly.

“Without the name of the one who made the appointment, there’s no way I can let you see the ambassador.”

Considering the matter closed, she leaned back in her chair, interlocked her fingers, and rested them in her lap.

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