Diplomatic Crisis (The Empress' Spy Book 2) by S.E. Weir & Michael Anderle

Author:S.E. Weir & Michael Anderle [Weir, S.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

Star System within the Empire, Planet Lyriem

She-Who-Mourns paused to wipe the moisture from her face. This phenomenon was new, and their bodies had yet to become accustomed to it. Her planet had previously been temperate, and that was what their bodies were accustomed to. The temperature was now wildly out of control.

What alarmed her was that she could feel the lack of moisture in her body now that it had escaped her skin. Their people would need to drink more water to replace the moisture that left their bodies, water they didn’t have enough of. Perhaps there would be a shift in temperature again soon so they could find relief. Anything was better than this wretched heat.

A mewl returned her attention to the task at hand. Giving the child next to her a smile, She-Who-Mourns pulled a small bowl out of her basket. She frowned since she had expected there to be more in the container, but She-Who-Loves reached out eagerly and her eyes lit up. She-Who-Mourns paused to make sure the child could eat on her own before moving on to the next.

She handed a bowl to the child in the second bed from the end, relieved the task was almost done and the children were no worse off than the day before. That relief fled when she reached the male child at the end. His arms trembled as they stretched out, his eyes pained. Her heart skipped a beat as grief filled her, then resolve. He-Who-Endures wouldn’t die if she could do anything to prevent it.

Bending down, she dropped the basket on the floor and lifted the bowl to his face below his sonorous tubes. His mouth opened to let his long tongue reach out and lap from the bowl.

“That’s it, little one. You can do it.”

His eyes flicked to her and his tubes waved sluggishly—in irritation, she realized when he protested a moment later.

“Not little.”

She leaned forward to stroke his cheek with one of her sonorous tubes, an act of intimacy reserved for a mate or a child. “Outside you are little yet, but inside…inside, you have grown far beyond your years. You just need to let your body catch up.”

“Can’t. I’ll be dead soon.”

Straightening in surprise, she couldn’t help the agitation of her sonorous tubes. “Who told you that?”

He turned his head away, looking at the wall on the other side of the bed.

“He-Who-Endures, you know not to hold secrets from me.”

Reluctantly, his eyes returned to hers before whispering a name. Sighing, she leaned over and caressed his face again. “Thank you, my strong one. You forget about what other people say and focus on getting better. Do not give up. I do not know what our fate holds, but if it is at all possible, I will not allow anyone else to die. We have come too far to give up now. You hang on and live.”

He smiled faintly and nodded. After blowing him a kiss, she gathered her basket and his bowl, then reversed her route to pick up the other bowls on her way out.

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