Noxx: Alien Adoption Agency #1 by Tasha Black

Author:Tasha Black [Black, Tasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 13th Story Press
Published: 2021-01-06T18:30:00+00:00

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Noxx

Noxx marched through the trees, two small rabbit-deer strung over his back.

The tiny creatures didn’t have much meat, but it would be better than nothing.

Luna and the boy had been picking all kinds of vegetation to cook, but a warrior of the Invicta needed meat.

He heard Luna laugh behind him and he felt a pang of jealousy, though he was sure the boy was no competition for her heart.

Her heart isn’t mine.

He tried to shake the dark thoughts, but they wouldn’t stop coming.

He needed to use that radio transmitter.

I’m a warrior. I’m not meant for these emotions.

But the emotions were coming fast and hard no matter what he claimed to be.

At least the boy’s presence would keep him out of Luna’s bed for the night.

He ground his teeth in frustration.

“Are you worried we won’t make it in time?” Luna asked as she appeared at his elbow.

“No, I’m just thinking about the food replicator,” he said. “How is it that we went out because we didn’t have enough to eat and we came home with another mouth to feed.”

“He won’t be with us forever,” Luna said. “We just have to keep him safe tonight. Tomorrow, we can help him find his family.”

“How could you possibly know that?” Noxx demanded. “He can’t even speak.”

“He absolutely can speak,” Luna retorted, rising up to the boy’s defense. “I just can’t understand him.”

Noxx chuckled in spite of himself.

Luna gave him a friendly shove and a wave of happiness washed over him at her touch.

“When we get back, can you get the boy settled?” he asked. “I have one or two things to do outside.”

“Sure,” she said. “We’ll start dinner.”

She bent to grab a handful of pretty blue flowers.

The boy ran up beside her and gestured to the flowers.

“Yes, they look nice, don’t they?” she asked, smiling at him.

He continued gesturing frantically.

“I don’t think he thinks those are for eating,” Noxx said.

“Well, they’ll look nice on the table,” Luna said. “It’s strange though, we have flowers like this at the farm on Terra-4 and they’re delicious. Maybe it’s just not customary to eat them here.”

“Maybe,” Noxx agreed.

They walked on for a few more minutes. The boy ran ahead and peeled a large mushroom from the trunk of a tree.

He trotted back to Luna, his large eyes rapturous as he showed her what he had found.

Noxx shook his head. The woman made friends wherever she went.

At last they reached the tree.

“Go on up,” he told her. “I’ll be there in a minute.”

She scrambled up and the boy tried to follow.

“Take these,” Noxx told him, handing him the rabbit-deer.

He grinned and threw the meat over his shoulder, then scrambled up after Luna.

Noxx waited until he was sure they would have gone inside.

Then he began to climb.

When he reached the disk, he let it bring him to the treehouse. He stepped off quietly and grabbed the transmitter, sliding the volume knob as low as it would go.

He had to hand it to Luna, she had done an amazing job with this thing.

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