Son of Rozari Box Set by J. Naomi Ay

Author:J. Naomi Ay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: alien, magic, angel, scifi romance, fantasy romance, galactic empire
Publisher: J. Naomi Ay
Published: 2021-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Eryk

I didn’t usually pull rank like that, not that my rank mattered anymore. Out here in space, out here in the TransGalactic Alliance, I was just another cadet. The truth was, I wanted to impress her, this no name Karut girl with an overabundance of weird hair. My mother would have been horrified at it, all those wild shiny curls which couldn’t seem to decide if they were red or blonde. When the Saint, Markiis Kalila was younger, my mother said he had wild hair too, the same kind of untamed curls. At least his were golden and shone like a halo around his head.

“That’s because he’s a Saint,” my mother told me, staring lovesick as the man paraded or proclaimed something on the televid.

“Good shampoo,” my father grumbled. “He’s a phony. He can afford the best shampoo he wants. Don’t ask stupid questions, boy. People will think you are stupid.”

It was a dumb question, I admit, why the Saint’s hair was always so shiny. A dumb thing for even the seven year old guy that I was. Worse yet, I envied the Saint’s hair on account of my own hair didn’t shine. My uninspiring brown tresses didn’t do anything but hang lank and greasy along the sides of my head.

I became obsessed about it, until my mother bought me a solid shampoo. For a whole week my hair was treated to a lavender concoction in a bottle embossed with a golden royal seal. Seven days later, my hair still hung lank and slightly less greasy, but at least it smelled nice.

“What kind of shampoo do you use?” I asked Kacia, another admittedly dumb question, as we headed down to the commercial docks where I was hoping to hire someone to give us a ride. I assumed they did that out here in space. If we were on land, back in Hahr, stuck in a mall parking lot or even on an island somewhere off shore, I would have hailed a taxi or found a fisherman, offered him whatever it took and gotten us home by curfew.

“Shampoo?” she repeated, her eyes narrowing, her lips growing thin. That was a hard thing for her lips to do, being so red and heart-shaped, and shiny like her hair.

She turned away from me, probably noticing my gaze which must have been caught in a tractor beam and couldn’t pull away from those lips. Either this girl was really something, or I was two days out in space, tired, hungry and nostalgic for a normal Rozarian girl, even if she was a Karut.

Not that everybody else wasn’t normal. The six-limbed woman riding down the lift with us was perfectly ordinary on whatever planet she hailed from. The two-headed transport skipper who was willing to take us to Derius III for more money than Kacia had probably ever seen, was absolutely average on his planet too. I was certain of that, or at least, I told Kacia as much. Again, her eyes narrowed, skeptically sweeping across my face.

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