Maru's Surrender by Alyssa Hope & J. P. Webb

Author:Alyssa Hope & J. P. Webb [Hope, Alyssa & Webb, J. P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2017-10-16T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4.

After their meal they all settled down with a tablet, and Suki, Caleb and their adopted baby helped Maru go through pictures of things that they thought his two might know. Just like they were children, he thought. But they weren’t children, just badly hurt adults who had been living as slaves for most of their lives, and were just now learning how to live in this very different world where they were free and loved. Although he was the one who had to learn how to love them, he thought. Why was that such a difficult lesson?

The human had responded to ‘hound’, so Maru found a picture of that animal first, but got no response.

‘There is an old human song,’ Suki offered, ‘maybe that’s it?’ He tried humming what he knew of the hound dog song, and the human brightened and hummed along.

‘Once this nonsense is over, maybe Tad can join us with his flute, and we can practice children’s songs, with all of the little ones. In the meantime ...’

They were quickly able to establish that the human knew little or nothing of the human earth. Whatever planet he had spent his early years on was very different from that.

Suki thought about it. ‘Genetically he is an earth human, Karo says so, but he may have spent his early years on one of the colonies? Norin and Lora’s third, who is human, was born on a colony, and sold into slavery by his own parents, if you can believe such a thing. Maybe from the same place? I wonder, if we ask them ...’

The blue one had only vague childhood memories of Cerulea, but had obviously been there as a child. He had memories of some parts of that planet, and of having been loved.

‘He must have been very young when stolen, although not as young as Jevan was. At least he has some happy memories of it, and of being loved by his family. I hope they’ll love him still.’

Suki gave him a strange look. ‘Of course they’ll still love him. They’re his family. How could they not?’

They got better responses with pictures of generic trees and flowers, and animals and birds that any school child would know, and it became just a happy matching game which the baby won more often than not, although everyone was laughing by the end of it.

Maru was still thinking about names for his two, if they never got their memories back.

‘Why did you name your little one “Robin”?’

‘Caleb says that Robin Blue is the color of an earth bird that is the same soft light blue as our darling Robin’s skin. It’s a lot lighter than our own blue, but very beautiful, don’t you think? The blue-black hair, we don’t know where that came from, but it’s beautiful too, isn’t it?’

Oki, Suki and Caleb all adored their little adopted one, even if he was a different color than any of them, and had black hair on his hair. They

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