Monster Girl Base by Logan Jacobs

Author:Logan Jacobs
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-06-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

“Hello?” I called out to the empty street. “Come on out, whoever you are. We won’t hurt you.”

“Do not give yourself away,” Fela hissed from behind me. She slipped one finger into my jacket collar and pulled me backward. “Come back inside the cave with the books where it is safe.”

“Whoever it is, they know we’re here already,” I pointed out, but I let Fela tug me back into the library anyway.

“That does not mean we should go out immediately and expose ourselves,” Fela said, “or shout about how we won’t hurt them.”

“Did you want me to threaten them?” I protested as the smoked glass door swung closed in my face.

“You may not want to hurt them, but they may want to hurt us.” Fela brushed the back of my neck with her finger when she let go of my collar. “You’re telling them exactly where we are, and you’re also suggesting that we’re defenseless. Or at least unwilling to fight.”

“But we’re not,” I whispered. I pointed at my gun and then at Fela’s borrowed knife to emphasize what I meant. “We have weapons. And just because humans don’t like fighting doesn’t mean we won’t do it when we need to.”

“If they think we will not hurt them, that means we are easy prey.” Fela glanced over her shoulder toward the closed library doors, where Floppy hunkered down with his head toward the door and his trunk slung over his tusks. “Now they will attack us. If they can get through Floppy, we could be easy prey.”

“If we bunker down in the library and they try to get in and attack us, we’re sitting ducks,” I pointed out. “Whoever it is has probably been here a lot longer than we have and probably knows the terrain a lot better than we do. But I honestly don’t think they’re going to attack us, Fela. I think they were just curious.”

“You have lived in your town of caves so long that you have forgotten the laws of the wild,” Fela said. “This is not your home full of monkey-folk, Dave. You’ve been talking about the differences since we got here. Even if there are humans like you living in this town, they are not going to act the same way that the humans in your troupe did. They will be fearful, aggressive, desperate...”

“Look, I know you’re used to monkey-folk, but humans aren’t the same thing.” I held up my hands. “I went along with the monkey-man thing because I felt like it made more sense for you, but I’m not really a monkey-man. I don’t have a tail.”

“But the human-folk here might,” Fela said.

“You don’t need to call them human-folk,” I said. “Just humans. One word. And we might have evolved from monkeys a long time ago, but we’re kind of our own thing now.”

“If you say so,” Fela smirked. “We have been discussing this long enough. We need to hide or leave.”

“Okay, okay, look at it this way,” I began. “If we hide in here, they know where we are, and they’ll attack us.

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