Human Pet Prison (Possessive Aliens) by Loki Renard

Author:Loki Renard [Renard, Loki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

“Where were you?”

Warden interrupts my memories with a question. I’m glad for being pulled out of them. They’re so painful. Even the sweet ones. The sweet memories are what makes the painful ones so painful. I can still see her face. Her perfect, innocent, beautiful little face dancing before my eyes as I answer him.

“We were living on a small planet called Patch. I don’t know how, or why. We woke up one day, and that is where we were…”

“The timesplosion,” he says.

“Timesplosion?”

“Yes. A detonation in time and space, which caused the planet Earth, and those on it to be thrown across, well, time and space. The effects of the timesplosion are notoriously strange and unpredictable. It was not a typical explosion of the kind that you have a tendency to engage in, but one which rippled through time itself.”

“I would have thought an explosion large enough to throw people through time would just kill everybody.”

“It wasn't the kind of explosion you’re thinking of. It’s not the kind that you use. It was a different kind of charge. A temporal one. There weren’t really many people on the planet at the original time of the explosion,” he explains. “Those who came before were affected in various ways. Some ceased to exist completely. Others had all their atoms taken apart and were turned into small dogs. Some live on a planet eating slugs and cabbage…”

“Everything you say sounds like a lie,” I growl. “Except for the slugs and cabbage. I know a hundred ways to cook those two ingredients.”

“That’s the problem with the truth. It is often unbelievable,” he says. “That is why I want to hear your story.”

The last minutes with my daughter…

I’m back, watching the stars in the mid-day sky. But they’re not stars, of course. They’re ships descending toward the ground. I do not have a good feeling about this. We see ships passing above from time to time, but they never come in to land.

“Go inside, Ella.”

“They’re so pretty, Mama!”

She’s never done as she is told. I guess I’m not very good at making her. Ella and I are a team. We have each other, and that’s all we have. And that's why she needs to go inside. Now.

I reach to grab her, but she’s faster than I am.

“No, Mama! I want to see them!”

“It’s not safe, Ella. You need to go inside. Right. Now.”

Ordinarily, that change in tone would make her listen, but the stars are too bright a distraction. She darts away from my outstretched hand and she runs. She can run like a hare, and she knows this place like the back of her hand. She disappears into a small drainage tunnel. It’s big enough for her, but not for me.

“Ella! No! Come back!” I call after her in vain.

“I want to see the pretty stars!

“They're not safe, Ella. We need to go inside.”

“I am inside. A different kind of inside.”

This girl loves to argue with me. I usually think it is cute, but not today.

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