Citrine: Alien Hunting Grounds Book 3 (Deliverance) by Kyla Breene

Author:Kyla Breene [Breene, Kyla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

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Wroahk

The night is silent and long, but the morning brings chaos. The sound of her screams bring me to shore and right into the cove. I find her reaching for her sides, screaming unreservedly.

"Wroahk!"

"Silence!" I click back stridently.

Her screams disorient me, making it hard for me to navigate. She stops, but her eyes are still wide with fear, and I realize that she is showing more of her skin again.

She points to her sides, and I see that they're different. She now has bumps on the side of her bare chest. They looked somehow like…

I look down at my torso, feeling the same bumps on my side. Only, they aren't bumps. They're gills. My gills that I use to breathe in water.

"What happened?"

"My ribs were itching from inside my skin, like the bones were pulsing all night long. I finally managed to go to sleep with that incessant itching and just as I'm finishing up breakfast, I notice these bumps!"

"They're not bumps," I say, frowning.

"What are they then?" she asks impatiently.

"Gills."

"Gills? I have gills, Wroahk! I'm a fish? No, no, no. This is… This is…"

"You don't look quite as weak anymore."

"Seriously, Wroahk? Seriously?"

I don't really see why she's panicking. It is strange that she woke up with an extra body part, but she's a strange thing. Nothing surprises me about her anymore.

She falls to the ground and scratches at it, yellow eyes red and puffy. I sit by her, feeling a new emotion rise from my gut. I have no word for it, I just know I am feeling it toward her. It is not... unpleasant.

She suddenly screams again but this time, she runs behind the large tree in an instant. My tentacles reach around the tree and bring her back out, dangling her upside down by her limbs. She looks disgruntled but I wait for her to speak.

"I was naked, you dolt!"

I don't understand her words, but I hear the rage behind them.

"Put me down right now, Wroahk!"

I release her and she falls to the ground. She yelps as she falls and glares distastefully at me as she rises back to her feet.

"How very rude of you! I should… oh, never mind! I forget you're an alien sometimes. Men are all the same!"

"I am not the same as you."

She grunts and dusts herself, still glaring at me.

I reach out for her again and pull her closer, tracing my grasper over the bumps on the side of her chest, now hidden under her black layer of extra skin.

I prefer it when it is brown. The bumps feel rough and irregular against her, but familiar to me.

First, she stole my voice. Now, she's stealing parts of me.

"How can you steal my body?"

"Do you think I want this? I am now breathing through my torso, which last time I checked, isn't exactly human."

"And you are… human?" I ask skeptically.

"Yes, I am… I was… I don't know anymore!"

She screams again, wriggles out, and starts moving around me and mumbling.

"Oh, my gosh, how will

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