How to Pick Up Women With a Drunk Space Ninja by Jay Key
Author:Jay Key [Key, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781732659018
Google: 3IzVugEACAAJ
Amazon: 173265901X
Goodreads: 41871404
Publisher: Star Wheel Books
Published: 2018-09-19T23:00:00+00:00
Chapter 24
Uncle Loân
âTHIS IS IT?â
âThis is where the senior leaders of the cause reside. Yes.â
âItâs kind of aââ Duke cleared his throat and continued, ââletâs just say it leaves a bit to be desired.â
âJudging by your tone, Iâm assuming thatâs not a complimentary term,â returned Jaâa.
âDoesnât seem like a place from which one would launch a planet-saving rebellion, if you ask me.â
âI didnât,â Jaâa replied. She picked up the pace and headed under a natural archway created by two treesâone cracked into a right angle, the other with a posture crippled by age.
The archway led to a clearing surrounded by a grove of tropical trees and brush. It was dense, but not like the forests south of Dreâen where Duke and Ishiroâshea had first met their Neprian allies. Grass was in sparse clumps on the light tan soil which merged into grainy sand extending beyond the outer rim of trees west of the compound. Duke couldnât see the ocean, but he could hear the waves just beyond their forest wall.
âCan you smell it?â Poâl asked boastfully.
âIs that a rhetorical question?â Duke smirked.
âThatâs the smell of our beloved aquatic goddess; she who has both nurtured us from the bounty of her watery bosom and has buried men in her darkest depths for them never to return,â Poâl proclaimed triumphantly.
Duke and Ishiroâshea exchanged glances.
âHe has a way with words,â whispered the Nova Texan to his mute friend.
âThis perfume means that we are home, we are with our true friends, and we are in her tender care,â Poâl continued.
The other rebels stood around him, overcome with pride and admiration. All except Jaâa. Duke locked eyes with her and felt that he could read her mindâand it was telling him not to say what he was about to say.
âYou know, Poâl,â Duke began. Ishiro immediately covered Uuâkâs ears. âMaybe itâs different here on Neprius, but if a womanâs parts smell like rotten fish and saltwaterâmaybe she needs to scrub her darkest depths a bit more.â
For a split second, Duke was hopeful that Poâl wouldnât quite understand his meaning. He did.
âHow dare you insult our land!â
âTechnically, I insulted your water.â
Poâl, still a bit worse for wear, charged at Duke. The bounty hunter assumed a martial stanceâbut Teâo and Maân caught the lunging Neprian.
âIt was just a joke, Poâl. Lighten up,â said Duke.
âA poor joke at that,â Jaâa interjected as she turned and headed towards the largest of the buildings.
âJaâa, wait. I didnât mean it like that. It was just a joke.â Duke took a step towards her but Ishiro extended his arm and halted his progress.
âWhyâs Jaâa so mad?â asked Uuâk.
âYour Uncle Duke said something really dumb,â he said softly as he knelt down to her eye level.
âFigures,â Uuâk retorted.
âHey!â
âAnd you arenât my Uncle Duke.â
Ishiro was clearly pleased by his small companionâs attitude. However, she was soon interrupted by a very angry Poâl.
âLaGrange, Iâve had it. You may think this is a joke still and you can poke fun at meâIâm man enough to take itâbut donât insult the very place that we are fighting and dying to preserve.
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