Krol's Goddess by Lancaster V.C

Author:Lancaster, V.C.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Naomi sat cross-legged on the ground, arranging the leaves of her skirt to cover her. Ruth sat in front of her, and Moira completed the triangle, her two Bigfoot companions positioning themselves on either side of her. Naomi still thought of them as Bigfoot, but she had accepted months ago that it couldn’t be as simple as that. Bigfoot implied America. No stretch of the imagination could make her think she was still in America. But she had no other word for them, and Bigfoot was something familiar at least.

The rest of their entourage had stopped across the clearing, the male with the baby talking to Krol. Naomi did not like being separated from him, she discovered. She kept looking over that way, trying to keep him and Ryll in sight.

“So…” Ruth started, smiling. She clapped her hands together and held them, and her smile turned brittle. “This is going to be a lot to take in.”

“I expect so,” Naomi replied.

“I said I would start at the beginning so, here I go. I was abducted by aliens. Those aliens had also taken Gron. We were put in a cell together because the aliens were going to sell him, and thought they would get a higher price for the two of us.”

Naomi had got stuck on abducted by aliens. A part of her mind she had never acknowledged had considered it as a possibility, that this was an alien planet. But how could that be when she had no memory of getting there? She didn’t want it to be true. “Gron is… the one with the baby?” she asked, pointing at the group.

Ruth beamed. “Yes, that’s him.” Her voice was happy, and another little warning light came on in Naomi’s head, the pressure of the thing she suspected but didn’t want to be true growing stronger as it tried to break out. “His species is endangered, this is a protected territory where they can live in peace. That’s why he was poached in the first place. Anyway, we broke out from the cell and were rescued by more of the aliens who brought us back here.”

“So... So… So you’re saying they’re aliens?! And this isn’t Earth? It’s an alien planet, not just a-a-an alternate dimension or a subterranean…” Naomi trailed off, looking between the two women.

“Sorry,” offered Moira with a shrug. “Aliens.”

“W-Well how did I get here?!”

“The aliens that run this place, we call them the Greenies, because they’re small and green-”

“They look like toads,” Moira interjected.

“They’re the same species as the poachers, they’re just the good guys.”

Moira snorted.

“Yeah, they’re also assholes. Their leader is called T’Lax. Anyway, after Gron and I…” Ruth waved her hands around as if looking for the words.

“Fucked,” supplied Moira.

Ruth gave her a disapproving look.

“What?!” Naomi cried, then realised that was probably rude. She cleared her throat and tried again. “You and him?”

Ruth nodded, smiling. “Yeah,” she confirmed.

“B-b-but how is that-? Why?”

Moira laughed.

At that point they were interrupted by Ryll penetrating their circle and climbing into Naomi’s lap, startling her.

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